Word: quilted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...desired information concerning the war quilt of the Central powers and the alleged fallacies of Professor Barnes book may be found in the communication column of last Sunday's Boston Herald...
...bring criticism of college and university, daily before the public eye would stress such things as have been mentioned by the "Herald" and the "Times", then the country at large might have a saner conception of what college really means. And the moving picture hero with a crazy-quilt sweater and patent leather hair might be removed from his niche of credence in the public mind...
...life 59 years ago as the son a business-like London gentleman who set him to work in an insurance office. Or that now, having perfected his draughtsmanship until it is a byword, he lives amid Sussex downs with a wife who also draws, in a cottage of crazy-quilt architecture, under an old beech, an elm, and near a business-like workroom devoid of all "arty" furnishings. Sitting at his drawing board with his round, glittering spectacles and clean-shaven ascetic countenance, he looks very much like a village deacon, gnome-like brow, repository of his inspiration and technique...
...clerk to seek dubious paths to sudden wealth. He forces his way into Long Island society, only to learn that the straight and narrow path is, after all, the best. The little wife will have to wait for her Rolls Royce. The show is a sort of vaudevillian crazy quilt made out of gaudy wisecracks and patches from several other farces in which New York vernacular has been employed for dramatic effect. Almost all the comedies of this season carry some echo of George Kelly's The Showoff. This one even shamelessly copies John Bartel's famed laugh...
Locust Township lies in a quiet, verdant bowl in the mountains of Columbia County, Pa. Broad farms with prosperous farmer families upon them pattern the land like a soft patchwork quilt. It is ten miles to a town or city...