Word: chintz
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...prison hospital. During the summer he played baseball in the yard and felt better for the exercise. Always generous, he gave away to charity what his prison-mates estimated at $25,000. This openhandedness was responsible for the unconfirmed rumor that he had occupied a special cell with chintz curtains at the window, easy chairs, cozy bed and mattress. Some Philadelphians interpreted his generosity as a bid for hospitality when...
...includes many of the functions of a hotel, the Doctors Hospital proposes to emulate the best hotels in its provision for the comforts of the rich, with charges to match their purses. Thus, each of its rooms (it has no wards) has its private bath, its individual refrigerator. Rugs, chintz curtains and pastel-tinted walls give a cozy atmosphere. All beds are of wood. All medical and surgical equipment are of course the most modern and efficient. Patient-guests have at their convenience a barber shop, tailor, florist, public stenographer, telegraph office, newspaper & magazine stand, drugstore, gymnasium, library, solarium...
Relations Counsel Snell, in a chintz and mahogany suite, giving a party for the newspaper boys and abusing his employer. At the end of the play, he is back again in the city room with his feet on a desk and his snout in a telephone. A news rag, one gathers, is as inescapable as a winding sheet; the adherents of the prying profession hate their task but they cannot leave...
...tapestry with a couple of odd plates, a cup and saucer or two, hung over one's chimney-piece? The question of curtains is perhaps a more difficult one. Here a man must consult his means. Anything Turkish or Moorish looks well; but if that involves too much expense, chintz or cretonne curtains are preferable to so many yards of red cloth...