Word: bric-a-brac
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...again: 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...
...starts to 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...
...display 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...
Women's instinct for tidiness inclines to deprive them of the power of making a true reminiscence. Dust and unsuitable objects are often removed from the rooms in which they choose to display the bric-a-brac and furniture of their lives. The bedroom, especially, is tidy after the event...
...have pleased the portly old gentleman's heart. Doubtless he would have been less pleased to see his exhibition tricked out with an array of turn-of-the-century props. Museum Director Perry Rathbone had raided Boston attics for polar bear pelts, potted palms and king-size bric-a-brac to give the show a period flavor...