Word: sideboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vaudeville, toss dull cracks after bright ones, try to make the loud pedal sound like a new tune. The real honors go to Donald Cook. No one so deftly conveys well-bred distaste or alarm-looking as though he has just noticed a dead horse under the sideboard, or is about to hear a child of six recite...
Last week, on her birthday, London's Victoria & Albert Museum opened an exhibition of Queen Mary's treasures.-some 3,500 items culled from Her Majesty's home, Marlborough House, ranging from a massive 18th century sideboard to a tiny, inch-high jeweled crown that tinkles God Save the King...
...White House tenant has usually been attended by entertainment-balls, parades, Indian war dances, even a White House rummage sale. The sale was staged by Chester Arthur, who wanted to get rid of a lot of old "junk," including a pair of Lincoln's trousers and a magnificent sideboard which had been presented to the former First Lady, Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes (also known as "Lemonade Lucy"), by the W.C.T.U. (it fetched a high price from a prominent saloonkeeper...
...Victorian maids," Owens comments, "must have been expert navigators to be able to pass by a sideboard without knocking the horse out of a hunting scene...
...repaid, except in cash"). His only lucky break comes when he invades the swank apartment of a holidaying rich man and, after jimmying the food closets and the wine cellar and pawning the silver service, dreamily proceeds to daub The Raising of Lazarus on the wall over the antique sideboard. But in two ticks Gulley himself is invaded by another, equally ruthless genius-a ferocious sculptor who cheerfully hoists a vast block of rock through the studio window and sets to work with a chisel...