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...these are real works of art in a twentieth-century medium. "Gulliver Mickey", for example, has happily seized upon the delight of miniatures, of 100 doll-house bric-a-brac, latent in the "Travels", and given them a separate existence, the satire being discarded. Disney has come a long way from the days when visual puns were the heart of an animated cartoon. You remember: Felix the Cat used to have trouble entering fourth-story windows, only to sprout columns of huge question marks out of his head and use them as the necessary ladder. Insead of this...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Moviegoer | 12/19/1935 | See Source »

Down the chimney into the study of Rhode Island's Governor Theodore Francis ("All-Round") Green streaked a bolt of lightning, smashing bric-a-brac to smithereens, showering everything, including the Governor, with soot. Said he: "I'll need a bath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 29, 1935 | 7/29/1935 | See Source »

...Clothes Wanted by Max Keezer. 3 Bow Street. I am paying higher cash prices than any other dealer for your cast-off clothing. Old gold, watches, chains, diamonds, bric-a-brac, furniture, carpets, etc. Remember Max Keezer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THROUGH THE YEARS | 4/12/1935 | See Source »

...March, aged 83, he had erected for himself a huge 70-room porticoed limestone and marble Renaissance house-fine even in a finer place than Kansas City. The house alone cost $575,226.07. Inside was placed a profusion of Austrian hand-tufted carpets, tapestries, urns, silverware, china, pictures, bric-a-brac, chandeliers, for which Mr. Long paid $207,763.57. There were Oriental rugs in every bathroom. House and contents were listed on his personal ledger as an $11 asset. Last week more than 1,000 Kansas Citizens gratified a long-cherished ambition to see the inside of the Long house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Lumberman at Home | 10/22/1934 | See Source »

Advertised by Max Keezer: I am paying 50 percent higher cash prices than any other dealer for your cast-off clothing, Old Gold, Watched, Chains, Diamonds, Bric-a-Brac, Furniture, Carpets, etc. Suits $3.00 to $20.00; overcoats $5.00 of $20.00; trousers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THROUGH THE YEARS | 5/15/1934 | See Source »

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