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...auditorium, music room, shower baths and locker rooms. Half of the $12,000 that this cost was given by Manhattan Philanthropist George Dupont Pratt in memory of his wife whose name it bears, the rest by friends of the school. In these rooms as throughout the school, all the bric-a-brac, small furniture and decoration is the work of Hessian Hills pupils...
...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...
...famous 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...
...MacDougall 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...
...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...