Word: brac
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rooms piled with lamps, sofas, baby-carriages, and bric-a-brac fill the three floors and basement. Dust has collected on glass tasseled lampshades of satin and on old sewing tables and desks. Neo-classical busts and statues are sprinkled about along with kerosene lamps. Supplementing the collection is a stuffed gila monster and a faded red and grey banner which reads, "Andover 34, Exeter...
Inside the Victorian house, Maass finds "a happy, hide-and-seek quality of surprise." Stripped of its overgrowth of large-figured wallpaper, overstuffed chairs, marble-topped tables, potted plants, shellwork, beadwork, fringed cushions, petitpoint mottoes, bric-a-brac, fretwork brackets and tiered whatnots, "the Victorian parlor with its parquet floor, high ceiling, tall windows and ample fireplace emerges as a very handsome room...
...soon the cosmopolitan millpond is covered with the crisscrossing tracks of society's idle, discontented water beetles. The never-changing House of Merz is the center and paymaster, and so long as it stands, all Europe plays upon its bounty, feeding the Merz gold into art. bric-a-brac, gambling debts, mistresses and "culture...
...play a game of hide-and-SEC with such flimflamboyance that one day he gets the sulks because he has made only $5,000,000 by closing time. With his filthy lucre, Sanders buys himself a fine Fifth Avenue mansion and decorates it with such costly bric-a-brac as a millionairess (Zsa Zsa Gabor), her secretary (Nancy Gates), the wife of a business rival (Coleen Gray), the widow (Lisa Ferraday) of the brother he had betrayed...
...their choicest wares. The Count Foucou de Gines (rhymes roughly with jeans) picked over their offerings judiciously, settled on 20 jade statuettes, a few more paintings, some luxury editions of books. By the time he was through, the count had written checks for $71,000 worth of bric-a-brac. The count's secretary, taking advantage of an old French custom, scurried around to each merchant and demanded 10% commission on everything his master had bought. He collected, in cash, some 2,000,000 francs ($5,700). The count busied himself by making a fast deal with the livestock...