Word: decoratrix
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more commendable ever since. Another chapter solves problems for young-marrieds, with a five-year program for feathering the nest. All that is (see adjectives above) in chintzes and cretonnes, flounces and hangings, locks and latches, cupboards and clapboards, rugs and roofs, has passed beneath the avid eye of Decoratrix Seal. She has torn down old houses besides building new ones and adapting odd ones. She has lived thoughtfully enough to know that "simplicity" must never mean discomfort. Aesthetically the book parallels the current literary renaissance of early America. If widely read, it should speed the arrival, in districts beyond...
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