Word: decorated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could be true, as cantankerous Andrew Jackson Gillis kept insisting, that he was not the same old boy. "Bossy" Gillis still looked as seedy as Burpee's spring catalogue, and he fitted into the gentle, museum-piece decor of old Newburyport, Mass, like a prime bull at a vegetarians' convention. But the coming of middle age, a wife and a new black bowler had smoothed some of Bossy's sharp edges...
Luxurious Interior Decor...
...Manhattan Wholesale Grocer Bill Seeman, his drinking companion, and with the other under his arm, departed for the much more elegant El Morocco. All in all, it was a small thing. A nothing. It was not as though he had settled down amid El Morocco's zebra-striped decor with a live giraffe...
Fleur's Flair, which will be shown this week in a limited edition to 5,000 potential advertisers and subscribers, looks like a fancy bouillabaisse of Vogue, Town & Country, Holiday, etc. By covering "fashion, art, literature, travel, decor, theater and entertainment," Editor Cowles expects to lure enough readers to guarantee advertisers a circulation of 200,000 (at 50? a copy) at the start...
...unclear--perhaps they think it will improve the humor of the magazine, which, in recent months, has slipped to a position somewhat short of overpowering. Perhaps the dutch tiles with which the walls of their sanctum are lined need a spring cleaning; perhaps they look forward to a gayer decor, with chintz curtains in every leaded window...