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...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...

Author: By Laurence D. Savadove, | Title: Holcombe Will Combine Ivory Soap and Politics For Last Time in Goverment 1b Lecture Today | 3/22/1951 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: No Snuffling | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

WCOP has been condoning these daily polls for two weeks new, but yesterday was only the see and time they have encamped on University fringes. "Some times we realty get some pips for answers," said the controlman from his seat at the reenter sideboard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Erudite Students Transfer Burden To WCOP Record | 12/9/1947 | See Source »

Some Pastry. Most of the 28 guests assembled among the roses in the Federal Trade Commission's private dining room in Washington had no idea why they were there. The chocolate-covered cupcakes on the sideboard gave some of them a clue: they were iced in white with the initials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFLECTIONS: The Fog | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

Affable Mr. Byrnes then said that the Foreign Ministers had worked hard, that they deserved a reward, that there was turkey on the sideboard. Mr. Molotov made a joke: he said that Turkey was not on the agenda. In view of "The Hammer's" new reasonableness, the least the others could do was to laugh heartily and politely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Two Thanksgivings | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

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