Word: gingerbreads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make the going pleasanter, the Met will throw out what Director Francis Henry Taylor calls the "bronze grapefruit tree" lamps that flank the entrance, and the gingerbread decorations inside, will re-do the 25 formidable front steps so that they do not make people shrink and slink as they climb them. The giant tomb of Perneb, which stands like a road block before the Egyptian wing, will be tucked into place about two blocks away. The Met will also put in escalators for weary museum-feet, a new, airy restaurant for the hungry, a radio-broadcasting and television studio...
Kostelanetz Conducts (Andre Kostelanetz and Orchestra; Columbia, 8 sides). Music's gingerbread man fancies up St. Louis Blues, Stormy Weather and others. Performance: fair...
...Ministry of Prisoners and Deportees, they had been assembled, deloused, given pocket money and train tickets to Paris. In the Gare de l'Est a military band welcomed them with the Marseillaise, an F.F.I. Guard of Honor presented arms. Bustling officials distributed packets of food (sardines, sausage, gingerbread) and cigarets. Some of the ragged men smiled their thanks, some bowed their heads to hide their tears...
...most bodacious example in the U.S. of the plushy Victorian architecture variously known as jigsaw, gingerbread or General Grant, is the mammoth, decaying, 917-room United States Hotel at Saratoga Springs, N.Y.* Two years ago, the old "States" foundered in white-elephantine failure, closed its doors forever. Last week the entire furnishings of this ornament of an age went on the auction block. It was a great day for the fanciers...
...right of admission to the Meetinghouse (on the site of Lehman Hall) where the degrees were conferred came out to watch the procession and see the sights. Cambridge common was covered by tonts of huck-sters, cheap-jacks, Indian basket-sellers and medicine men, sellers of gingerbread, purveyors of run, keepers of dancing bears, and ladies of easy virtue. The College Corporation was much worried by these raffish accompaniments to their solemn exercises. Unable to persuade the Cambridge authorities to keep the populace in order for Commencement brought money into the village they tried the dodge of keeping the date...