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Word: kidskin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the war, the Porters plunged headlong into Europe's melting pot of millionaires and marquises. They bought a $250,000 house in Paris, complete with kidskin chairs, zebra rugs and a room decorated in platinum leaf, but the house was often only a place from which mail was forwarded to the English countryside, Antibes, Venice, Florence, Siena, and the Duke of Alba's palaces in Seville and Madrid. In 1923, when Porter came into an inheritance from his grandfather, he began renting Venetian palaces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Professional Amateur | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

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