Word: bric
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...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...
...last 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...
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...
...worth his salt," says Herbert Kalness (J. C. Nugent), a plump, mean, small-town manufacturer who also has a low opinion of evening clothes, servants and most of the amenities. When the play opens, he seems much less devoted to his charming family than to two pieces of bric-a-brac in the living room: a hideous crayon portrait of his day-laborer father and an oversized spittoon. The little comedy, which Song-&-Danceman Eddie Dowling chose for his first Broadway presentation in three years, shows how certain trivial experiences improve the character of Herbert Kalness. When the patrician parents...