Word: carpet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...might well have furrowed Mrs. Rice's brow. For 500 socialites crowded in among the priceless bric-a-brac, to munch chicken a la king and sip punch. No damage was done. But ordinary visitors will not be allowed to scuff across the room's Savonnerie carpet, made for Louis XIV, or sit in its superbly upholstered chairs. From behind ropes the public will view these and the Sevres porcelain, the Boucher tapestries, the rich Louis XVI paneling, the rock-crystal chandeliers, the china figures so delicate that dust is not wiped off them but whiffed away...
This season, grand opera at Manhattan's Metropolitan opened with a slightly fussier fuss than usual. Last week, however, the Met got in the groove-a few new voices and a new red carpet, but the same old scenery, same old gilded box holders, and opera's perennial bright angel, NBC, occupying Grand Tier Box 44 for the Saturday matinee, Boris Godunoff...
...carpet bag and the brass spittoon...
After a late and humdrum start, the new season at last unrolled its red carpet and put on a white tie last week. On three successive nights celebrities and sophisticates flocked to welcome their favorite comedy-writing team, their favorite musicomedy-writing team, one of their two favorite actresses...
Also standing to profit are Argentina and Uruguay, only major producers of carpet wool in South America. Now the U. S. should become their A1 wool customer, which will suit everybody. For the more wool the U. S. buys in Latin America, the more exchange Latin America will have with which to satisfy its needs in the U. S. market...