Word: foyer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...everything in jaspe satin ("Fabric-wise, I like this room best"), added a cherry-rose chair ''that seems to say, 'Come in.' " The dining room, which Mrs. Mesta had decorated with French wall coverings of tapestry patterns, was considered perfect as it was. In the foyer are displayed some dazzling mementos of the Johnsons' recent travels, e.g., a painting of sampans, from South Viet Nam's Ngo Dinh Diem, a Gandharan head from Pakistan's President Ayub. From Texas came the Johnson collection of paintings and drawings by their favorite Texas artists-Porfirio...
...coast and from Florida to Montreal and from 27 private collections of such art patrons as David Rockefeller Henry Ford II and Mrs. Marshall Field, the show brings together mostly unfamiliar works, including three Rembrandts. Richly hung against red plush walls in three small rooms and a connecting foyer a wide variety of styles and periods offset each other, inviting fresh appraisals and creating an effect that is intimate and dazzling-like diamonds nestling in velvet More surprising is the mood of the collection: a luminous tranquillity...
Girls are not all a G.I. gets. In the club foyer stand 34 slot machines that spill out jackpots of up to $1,500. The slot machines are what makes everything else possible. There are bingo games with $1,000 prizes, plus free trips to Hawaii with all expenses paid. At the bar, cocktails and highballs cost 5? each. Steaks served by dimpled Okinawan waitresses come higher: 25?. Once a week, pizza pies are served free; once a month, all drinks are on the house...
Rooms for single students will include foyer, living room and bedroom combination, bath and kitchenette. Family units, somewhat larger, will also include outdoor play areas for children...
...onslaught of crab grass was a mixture of wet, cold spring and hot, humid summer. a combination that weakens perennial grasses and strengthens the hardy weed. In Suburbia, where crab grass on a lawn can lower a man's status faster than a garbage can in his foyer, the prolific (up to 50,000 seeds a plant) weed has become a neighborhood problem, like juvenile delinquency; if not snuffed out in one spot. it quickly spreads to another. Yet it is almost impossible to stop: digging only exposes more seeds, poison is often ineffective or kills other grasses, mowing...