Word: zebra
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plans to plant in his garden. Cole already gets plenty of sound from Los Angeles and Boston and an unidentified U.S. town where the air is full of messages for a company called Alexander's Radio Call Service. With his new equipment he hopes to unscramble the zebra-striped images he gets from U.S. TV stations...
...fingernails painted silver, Peggy Guggenheim is a flamboyant yet somehow regal character, whom Venetians call "L'Ultima Dogaressa" (The Last Duchess). Gondoliers have made a fortune ferrying her guests and visitors (Peggy herself travels in her own private gondola or fast speedboat), who come to sit on her zebra-striped couches, gaze at the display of modern paintings, constructions and sculptures. Infectiously gay and gossipy, Peggy Guggenheim has made her palazzo not only one of Venice's institutions but a crossroads of the artistic world...
Nobody in Britain could throw a better binge than Lady Docker, whose democratic ways and goldplated, zebra-lined Daimler motorcars have long been the solid staples of London's gossip columns. Unfortunately for London partygoers, however, just as Norah's plans were crystallizing last week, the Daimler people fired her husband (see BUSINESS), and Norah moodily canceled her party. "How could they do it?" she said of her husband's employers, a question that echoed the sentiments of many a party girl toward Britain's spoilsports. As Debutante Felicity Drew, guest of honor at the Thames...
...Dockers also made generous use of the expense account and position of Sir Bernard, chairman of the Birmingham Small Arms Co., which produces everything from air rifles to $40,000 Daimler limousines. On the swindle sheet were at least two gold-plated Daimlers-one of them upholstered in six zebra skins and costing $42,000. Owned by Daimler, they were built to Lady Docker's specifications and for her use. Said Lady Docker: "We bring glamour and happiness into drab lives. The working class loves everything...
...Zebra to Zulu...