Word: chintz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...general sailed his flat-brimmed, Pershing-style khaki campaign hat on to a table, and sagged into a chintz-covered chair. Scowling across the parlor of his Managua, hilltop mansion, Nicaragua's Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza grumbled: "I did everything I could to prevent what is coming, but there's no way to keep the peace in Central America. For years Nicaragua's Guardia National has stood like a Chinese wall in Central America, stopping trouble from going north and south. God knows I'm a patient man, but there is nothing...
...walls, some of Lamotte's paintings were as bright and cheerful as summer chintz; others seemed like twilit windows looking out on the rainswept streets, the darkening alleys, the lonely deserted shops that had caught his eye. Next week 36 Lamotte illustrations will appear in a $12.50 Limited Editions volume of Nana; light of hand but heavy with atmosphere, they are enough to give anyone that last-time-I-saw-Paris feeling...
...chintz dressing room, Margaret put on her own makeup, straightened the folds in her voluminous white chiffon skirt. She was calm and confident. She had a master of orchestral accompaniment in balding Eugene Ormandy, conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and he had rehearsed her carefully...
...means eclipsed by the new arrivants were the 18 undergraduate 'Cliffers and the 30-odd graduates who have been hanging white chintz curtains in Cabot Hall windows for over two weeks. The mystery of their presence still remained. As a clothing pin canvasser put it last week...