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Inside the Victorian house, Maass finds "a happy, hide-and-seek quality of surprise." Stripped of its overgrowth of large-figured wallpaper, overstuffed chairs, marble-topped tables, potted plants, shellwork, beadwork, fringed cushions, petitpoint mottoes, bric-a-brac, fretwork brackets and tiered whatnots, "the Victorian parlor with its parquet floor, high ceiling, tall windows and ample fireplace emerges as a very handsome room...
...Remembering Mark Twain made a lot of things suddenly click. For as the Volga is like the Mississippi of his pilot days, so these people living along it are like the free-&-easy, friendly Midwesterners of his books. There were neat, small, wooden houses with Victorian fretwork along the eaves, lace curtains and begonias and geraniums in the windows. The houses and. roads had the same unpainted, unpaved frontier look. The trim wooden fences could have done with Tom Sawyer's or any other system of whitewashing. A lad of about Tom's age came past, dragging...
...Maisky over a long period of years." Many M.P.s looked up toward the very popular Maisky, who sat looking like a faintly amused sphinx with his dumpling body relaxed against the stiff-paneled wall, his hands sprawled on his knees, his black-shod feet propped up on the iron fretwork at the bottom of the gallery railing. He did not change his expression, but wiggled his right foot during the cheering...
...friends disclosed that Reading is on the verge of liquidation. A 102-year-old subsidiary of gigantic Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co., which is being reorganized under the Bankruptcy Act, Reading Iron employs 1,700 men, has sales of $4,000,000 a year. But foot-scrapers, ornamental fretwork and wrought iron pipe are out of fashion and Reading has lost $4,000.000 since 1929. Last week Vice President M. P. McDermott said he would be very glad...
...Wops ............Italians Bohunks .............Hungarians and Slavs Polacks ..........Poles Hunkies ............Hungarians Dagoes .........Italians *Later, in jail, Vanzetti fumbled with the fretwork of English idiom, his squinting pen articulating the letter below: ". . . Innocent; I am so. I did not spittel a drop of blood or steal a cent in my life. A little knowledge of the past: a sorrowful experience of life itself had give to me some idears very different from those of many other umane beings. But I wish to convince my fellowman that only with virtue and honesty is possible for us to find a little happiness...