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...lived quietly in Great Neck, L. I. Sir Joseph Duveen and others were commissioned to start an Italian collection for the Hamilton home. They bought paintings by Veneziano, dei-Conti, Francia, Perugino, Melzi, Desiderio, Botticelli. Titian. The Hamilton home became a Renaissance rarity, authentic in painting, sculpture, tapestry, velvet, bric-a-brac. When it proved too small to hold the collections, Collector Hamilton moved to a 14-room apartment on Park Avenue, Manhattan...
...goods at his house on Massasoit street. It was the visible beginning of the end of his residence at the White House and seemed to indicate where the Coolidges will reside after March 4th. The goods were souvenirs of the past eight years-books, objets d' art, bric-à-brac from all over the world. A favorite article is a chair given by a Hungarian society with heads of Washington and Kossuth carved on the posts...
...disgruntled over his pay, gets drunk, steals and drinks a house holder's Canadian ale, gnaws the householder's baked ham, belabors the householder's crystal chandelier and mirrors with the ham bone and flings the ale bottles-not to mention ash trays, knives & bric a-brac-through the householder's high-priced canvases by Rubens and Van Dyck? For such deeds, causing $50,000 damage in the Fifth Avenue apartment of C. Bai Lihme, retired zinc man (TIME, July 11), a Manhattan judge last week sentenced one John Healy to a prison term...
...elevators, even to the cheapest gallery seats, lounge rooms, the music room for people waiting to be seated in the theatre. The rug is lighted so that latecomers can find a softly glowing path to their seats in a darkened theatre. But large further sums were spent on such bric-a- brackery, such articles of virtu, as 37 bronze-labeled stones from foreign countries in the "Hall of Nations." This hall also contains a bronze bas-relief of Thomas A. Edison, who presented the first practical cinema reel (1894), scenes of prize fights, fencing matches, dances and vaudeville skits. Inventor...
...pillows embroidered with the Rumanian royal crest and motto: Nihil Sine Deo;* chewed gum when assured by one of her ladies-in-waiting, Mme. Prezepie, that in the U. S. it is considered a preventative against seasickness-learned that half a million dollars' worth of antique furniture and bric-a-brac has been installed by the Hotel Ambassador in the suite which will allegedly be rented to Her Majesty in Manhattan for "a dollar a day"; received a 21-gun salute from the battery on Governor's Island as the Leviathan nosed up New York Harbor...