Word: bric-a-brac
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Last week word went around Manhattan that some of the mildewed bundles of art had been rescued, could be seen in the back room of a dingy Canal Street bric-a-brac shop run by one Henry C. Roberts. Art dealers snapped up hundreds of pictures at $3 to $5 apiece. They planned to clean, mount, frame and resell them...
Whatever the arrangement, when the Government moves in, the hotel-as the guest sees it-moves out. A thousand vanloads of beds, lounges, bric-a-brac, tinted etchings and potted palms were carted away from the Stevens. Army guests live up to eight in a room, according to barracks regulations requiring 60 sq. ft. of floor space and 720 cu. ft. of air space per man. Army cots go into the rooms, Army chow lines with scrubbed tables replace silver & linen in banquet halls. All the Army wants is the bare walls-sometimes the hard-to-get big kitchen utensils...
Wrote Photographer Beaton in Vogue: "The dust blows past the jalousies into the 'Art Moderne 1900' interiors, on to the pinnacles of bric-a-brac. . . . The heat becomes oppressive; only the darkened room is bearable." Before his eyes swam Beatonesque visions: "Prince Mohammed Ali, heir to the throne and cousin of King Farouk I ... in his tarboosh, morning coat and sponge-bag trousers, with an enormous emerald on one finger." . . . Madam Fouad El Manasterly at soirées in her garden overlooking the Nile. "The glitter of the Turkish standard candelabra and the white-draped musicians...
Left. By the late John Barrymore: household furniture, bric-a-brac, an automobile, cash amounting to "$10,000 or less"; to his three children, Diana, 21, Dolores Ethel, 12, John Blythe...
...brown moving van pulled up to the town house. It was probably late; Manhattan moving vans always are. Soon movers had the sidewalk littered with tables and bric-a-brac; they always...