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...design of a Pullman car which Mr. Brady liked to pin on his underwear. Almost two inches long were his freight and passenger car cuff links. A bicycle-shaped stud was reminiscent of the goldplated, diamond-studded bicycle he gave to Lillian Russell, who kept it in a plush case when she was not riding it. From the cover of his eyeglass case came the three-inch design of a locomotive. Other items: a camel tie clasp, a collar button representing an early airplane. In a forthcoming biography of "Diamond Jim" Brady, Jeweler Parker Morell estimates that at the time...
...budget by painful slices of 93,000,000 guilders ($63,000,000) in expenditures, but even so Holland was ready to spend $8,240,000 for new ships for the East Indian Navy. A few would not stay silent. No sooner had Queen Wilhelmina sunk back on her plush throne than three Communist Deputies rose before their horrified colleagues to shout objections. Hustled from the room, they were promptly arrested...
...found the Russian embassy in Washington (onetime home of the late George Mortimer Pullman) finally fixed up and ready for occupancy. A new heating and cooling system, a modern kitchen had been installed, but there had been no Russian money available for replacing the ornate chandeliers, the tsaristic red plush furniture...
Sombre mahogany panelled walls, dark red plush hangings, massive carved doors, yellow tapers flickering before two bronze urns set in niches of the wall--the sitting room of the Van Bret mansion of Fifth Avenue in 1910; in this atmosphere, and as an integral part of it, appears Victoria Van Bret; guardian of the Van Bret millions, tyrant of the Van Bret household. Around the commanding presence and warped soul of this queenly spinster revolves a tense drama of hate and fear, swelling in an unvarying crescendo of emotional strain to a brilliant climax in the last scene. "Double Door...
...that in 1932 Plymouth was the only car of the Big Three to increase its sales (18%) but when he footed up the bill for that year Chrysler Corp. had a loss of $11,254,000. Yet the hard-driving operating man who had denied himself none of the plush upholstery of the boom showed that he had lost none of his skill when it came to Depression...