Word: wrapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stores which feature these items will gift wrap them, and in many cases, mail them for you. These are only a few of the gifts the editors have chosen. Others will appear in two subsequent gift pages before vacation begins for those who still forgot to pick up a little something for Aunt Clara...
...Park Avenue, where her mother lives with her as companion, housekeeper and secretary. Patrice dresses well but not lavishly, and if she has a weakness for finery, it comes out at the furriers. Her wardrobe includes two mink coats, a mink cape and stole, a nutria coat, an ermine wrap, and a spare mink skin "to keep my throat warm...
...Natural History, picked as her job a stint of swimming in the warm Red Sea. She made her base at Ghardaqa, Egypt, where Fouad University has a marine biological station. For the next ten months, Dr. Clark was one of the sights of Ghardaqa. The Moslems of Ghardaqa, who wrap their own women like mummies, watched with open amazement as she went down to the sea in a bathing suit. Their jaws dropped even lower when she cruised face down on the surface, aerated by a snorkel tube, and skewered fish with a spear. "But," said Dr. Clark, "they seemed...
...visit to Rosie, the elephant who had co-starred with him in Jumbo and then turned melancholy when the show closed. "Rosie! Rosie! It's Nosey!" said Durante. Rosie trumpeted and lay down on all fours, as she had been taught to do in Jumbo. Jimmy tried to wrap his arms around her. "Rosie ain't forgot me," he cried, tears in his voice. "Look! She still loves...
...popular printmakers, the Japanese have long been tops. In the 18th and 19th Centuries the genre was dominated by four masters: Kiyonga, Hokusai, Hiroshige and Utamaro. Their color prints made from wood blocks sold for a few cents each, were sometimes used to wrap tea for export. They greatly influenced such modern European painters as Manet, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec and Van Gogh. Now the wind blows the other way, and many Japanese prints show the influence of European art. Two of the postwar examples on the opposite page could only have been created through a meeting of East and West...