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Word: offing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1970
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David Hicks on Bathrooms. 151 pages. World. $15. England's best-known decorator wants bathrooms majestic and unapologetic. To show the way, he offers a selection of stately 19th century baths with Egyptian, Greek Revival and rococo influences. For "character, luxury and style" in the 20th century, Hicks leans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Deck the Shelves: For $3.95 and Up | 12/14/1970 | See Source »

The Edwardians by J.B. Priestley. Illustrated. 302 pages. Harper & Row. $ 15. The lower classes were wretched and the Boer War was a scandal, but in the main the Edwardians were as self-possessed as their older brothers, the late Victorians, and a good deal gayer. The Empire was at its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Deck the Shelves: For $3.95 and Up | 12/14/1970 | See Source »

The Celebrated Cases of Dick Tracy, 1931-1951 by Chester Gould. 291 pages. Chelsea House. $15. Despite 27 bullet wounds during the first 24 years of his adult life, Dick Tracy manfully survived the two decades here recorded. Inevitably, though, the collection is a celebration of scurvy rogues and criminal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Deck the Shelves: For $3.95 and Up | 12/14/1970 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Deck the Shelves: For $3.95 and Up | 12/14/1970 | See Source »

The Pulps, Fifty Years of American Pop Culture. Compiled and edited by Tony Goodstone. 239 pages. Chelsea House. $15. Mayhem, rape, demonology and interplanetary carnage in a representative sampling from Mammoth Adventure, War Aces, Thrilling Wonder, Western Trails, Spicy Detective, etc., including facsimile ads for "nose shapers," neckties that glow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Deck the Shelves: For $3.95 and Up | 12/14/1970 | See Source »

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