Word: chintz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shades of sentimental glory, as we this week nominate for a distinguished honor, that of "chow chintz number one." High on the list stand your authors--very high indeed. However, for reasons of bias we exclude ourselves, purely for bias. Ablest, we opine, is Bill Murray, ex-Indiana eager, but he is more or less closely pushed by Ted Marchese who knows not the meaning of the line...
...Neil doesn't give you a Parker pen for Christmas, he's a chintz. Reason might be a certain newly-acquainted Miss by the familiar name of "Parker." Morgan "Doughnuts" Dester hasn't made any doughnuts of late, but all's not dust that doesn't shine, so "old John" may be coming through soon. The missing link--Wolf by name--promises to show his Big Green face soon--he's from Dartmouth. Hyde of Harvard, who did undergraduate work across the River, claims many laurels for the Boston womenfolk. Of course, he may be a bit on the biased...
...lived and worked in the last car, the Pioneer, the mahogany-paneled private car in which Franklin Roosevelt once traveled. Just ahead of the rear platform was a glass-walled observation lounge, the candidate's living room, heavily carpeted, with a deep sofa, four club chairs-all chintz-covered-lamps, a radio, smoking stands. Beyond it were bedrooms for the candidate and his slight, pleasant wife; one for huge, lumbering Brother Ed; a section fitted as a dining room; a kitchen; compartment for maids, secretaries, aides and two New York City detectives, Stephen Buckley and Rudolph McLaughlin -both...
...buildings Architects Gordon Kaufman and Paul Williams were hired, turned out an imposing, 69-room hunk of hotel (late Californian with a Southern Georgian trace), plunked on a handsome mountainside. To dress it up inside, Decorator Dorothy Draper was brought from Manhattan. She did it complete with drapes of chintz and tweed, turned out uniforms for the help, wound up with small items, toothpicks and swizzlesticks in black...