Word: dado
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...live unwept, unhonored, and unsung. How many had left only crude initials to tell the world that they had lived. How many, when looking back through the years, must feel that the only lance that they had broken in the tournament of life was a penknife on a Holworthy dado. But there was some great names as well. Here was a classmate of his father's, here an industrial magnate, and here--could it be--a master of the wood...
Rooms decorated in antique tradition, Chambers adorned with a dado in pine, Studies designed by a geometrician,--Corners he laid out by sine and cosine...
...eating, drinking, living with gargantuan gusto. No one house was big enough for this titan. He bought three brownstone houses on East 19th Street, Manhattan, knocked them together and covered every inch of wall space with his own paintings. There are palm trees and parrots in the pantry, a dado of chimpanzees climbs up the stairs, round the walls of the yellow dining room stalks a procession of tall Mexican goddesses with bird heads. Night after night these rooms were filled with the intelligentsia, the talking, drinking, reciting, bright people of an inner world, while Bob Chanler...