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...great man was explaining the custom of "plucking," and the Vagabond listened. Outside those blood red curtains, snow was whirling to the gentle stop that tomorrow would be mud, but within there was a sort of dark brown warmth. To be sure, there was bric-a-brac, there was the sky blue oriental, there were landscapes, and there were the chandeliers, but this did not matter; for there were outstretched legs with two shiny boots at their ends, and there was the cupped ear. "Liquid jade," he mused, and was reconciled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 12/13/1932 | See Source »

...teacher of English, now 72 years of age, leave the Yard: the three flights of stairs, the necessity of better food than that brought over from the Union, and the greater noise occasioned by the presence of Freshmen in the Yard. During August the books, pictures, photographs, and bric-a-brac, gifts of "Copey's" many admirers, which literally covered the walls of Hollis 15, were transferred to his new lodgings under the direction of Major C. R. Apted '06, of the Harvard Yard Police...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Copey" Leaves Yard For New Quarters After Thirty Years of Residence--Hollis 15 Renovated, Given Over to Freshmen | 9/26/1932 | See Source »

...restaurants in Manhattan or into the one in Rye, N. Y., you can buy breakfast, luncheon, dinner, sandwiches, waffles, tea, coffee, cocoa, Italian, Spanish or English pottery and tea sets, 29 flavors of preserves and jellies, nine kinds of pickles and relishes. You can look at lamps, shades, bric-a-brac, pottery, leather goods, Venetian woodenware, Holland glass, table linen. Tooth-picking is discouraged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Frugality, Inc. | 3/7/1932 | See Source »

...would have been amazed. Through a 25 ft. hallway ornamented with portraits of himself and his wife, he would have reached a small cubicular office in which, almost submerged by the litter of trinkets, statuets, posters, portraits, folders, busts, pitchers, seals, plaques, gewgaws, jim-cracks and other Washingtonian bric-a-brac, he would have found Sol Bloom of Manhattan, associate director of the nationwide celebration. Commissioner Bloom is a small, round-faced 61-year-old Jew of Polish descent who was born in Illinois, raised in San Francisco and introduced to U. S. politics in 1923 when Tammany Hall, knowing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Business of a Bicentennial | 2/15/1932 | See Source »

...soon as the body was identified, police called at Professor Ivantsov's apartment. The door had been opened with the Professor's own latchkey. Sheets were hung over the windows. His expensive fur coat and 1,000 rubles ($500) were gone. His clothes, his books, his bric-a-brac, every article of value had been gathered together and tied up in neat little flat packages. Moscow detectives inspected the room, retired to cogitate, emerged with a theory. Said the spokesman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Laundrymen's Revenge? | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

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