Word: heirloom
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...revived the Junto was John Frederick Lewis Jr. Heir to a great Philadelphia fortune, frowzy-haired, rumple-shirted John Lewis works. 3 twelve hours a day keeping culture alive in Philadelphia. He is on the boards of 21 cultural institutions, heads the Academy of Music (a Lewis heirloom), the Mercantile Library, the Art Alliance. He inherited the largest single collection of portraits of Washington, and gave them away to Philadelphia's schools...
...drowsy day in 1895 Catherine Evans, a farm girl from Dalton, Ga., journeyed back into the hills to visit a cousin. There she saw a pair of family-heirloom "candlewick" bedspreads, the handsomest bedspreads she had seen in all her born days. Back she went to Dalton. learned to make them herself. Soon hardly a wedding anywhere around was complete unless the bride got one of Catherine Evans' bedspreads...
...burst into loud guffaws. Lady Campbell accused her husband of taking Son Douglas on a round of houses of ill fame and of boasting that he-Sir Malcolm Campbell-had seduced a tea-shop waitress. Lady Campbell said that her husband once showed to their grown daughter a family heirloom, an obscene antique watch inside the case of which two nude figures embraced...
...Cajun and Baratarian trappers to navigate the swamps and bayous south of New Orleans. Pirogues weigh from 50 to 100 pounds, are 18 inches wide, six to 20 feet long. Among Cajuns and Baratarians (descendants of Pirate Jean Lafitte's band of buccaneers) a pirogue is a family heirloom, the result of two or three years of painstaking labor. First the tree trunk is scooped out with a mattock and fire, then chipped with a hand-ax and machete, finally scraped with a piece of broken glass until it is as smooth as a wooden salad bowl...
...Night Must Fall had on the stage, make it a powerfully striking example of how a mood of horror can be created by understatement. Good shot: Olivia courteously giving Danny the price tag which she has just removed from the shawl he is presenting to Mrs. Bramson as an heirloom, from his mother...