Word: gobelin
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...California hilltop at the western terminus of the Lincoln Highway, overlooking the burnished haze of San Francisco. There stands California's memorial to her War dead, the Palace of the Legion of Honor, an edifice filled with many treasures, including the life of Joan of Arc in Gobelin tapestries, gift of France...
...Halevy portrayed her in L'Abbe Constantin, the novel which won him a seat among the "40 Immortals" of the French Academy. While Mr. Mackay remained in the U. S., she crossed the Channel to London, repeated her triumphs. Her mansion on Carlton House Terrace was decorated with Gobelin tapestries, other valuable objets d'art. Edward VII, then Prince of Wales, was a constant, admiring visitor. She went to Moscow, where Tsar Alexander III pronounced her the most beautifully dressed woman at his coronation ball. In 1902 her husband died. In 1915 she began a quiet life...
...first time to the top of the flagstaff there. Before the door of the white marble mansion, President Coolidge stood with his white collie, Rob Roy, posed for photographers, followed the dog over the threshold into his new home. Through the huge foyer he walked, past the costly Gobelin tapestry at his left, up the marble stairway lined with heads of mountain goats, lions, elk and caribou. Into the large room next to the library that is to be his workshop he stepped, paused, smiled at friendly objects: his desk, his favorite chair, many of his books, all brought carefully...
...House: four stories, marble, Italian architecture, 30 rooms. A Gobelin tapestry 25 x 10 feet depicts a hunting scene. The marble stairway is lined with heads of caribou, deer, elk, mountain goats, mountain lions killed by?...
...lavished on her gifts which only a sovereign could bestow with propriety upon a subject. "Brooches, bracelets and things" were her portion, and the Cavendish Hotel, which she still owns. She comes to the U. S. for two reasons-partly tohelp her publishers, and partly to sell some pre-Gobelin tapestries, showing the life of Constantine the Great, which have been part of her collection. "There have only been three men in my life," said Mrs. Lewis...