Word: chintz
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...buildings Architects Gordon Kaufman and Paul Williams were hired, turned out an imposing, 69-room hunk of hotel (late Californian with a Southern Georgian trace), plunked on a handsome mountainside. To dress it up inside, Decorator Dorothy Draper was brought from Manhattan. She did it complete with drapes of chintz and tweed, turned out uniforms for the help, wound up with small items, toothpicks and swizzlesticks in black...
...Keys Kettering to investigate. Most of the subsequent exhibits are Kettering's reports, but there are also police files on the individuals involved, photographs of the scene of the crime and of the passengers on the yacht, letters found in staterooms, a small sample of a blood-stained chintz curtain, a burnt match and some hair...
Elsie de Wolfe was the first U. S. woman decorator, first to use chintz, first to use fake plaster curtains in the corners of her rooms. With a hard, nimble, worldly mind, no children, a first husband at 70, a matchless acquaintance among the royal, the idle and the rich, she has made a fortune out of selling the U. S. the French version of good taste. From Versailles she still advises her Manhattan staff, now headed by Mrs. Eileen Allen, on every new decorating job, ships French materials and antique mirrors...
Needles click and inches of skirt or sweater grow under flying fingers, as Radcliffe goes yarn-minded. They are to be seen everywhere, these knitters, whisking their work out of roomy chintz bags, on the steps of Agasaiz, in the Writing room or Lunch room, even in the library with their eyes glued to a book as they knit, and possibly even as to whisper it in the back row at a ecture...
...like the famous Al Capone, there seems to be much unwarranted popular sentimentalism over the man who deserves another chance. Certainly not all of our prison inmates ought to be so treated. American penalism knows the extremes of the Florida sweat-box and the steam-heated cosy little chintz-curtained cells of our more modern institutions. The ideal probably is somewhere in between, with more consideration given to the casual, petty, or youthful wrongdoer, and much less to the case-hardened tough-and-proud-of-it thug and gunman...