Word: quilting
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...Author Thomas Hardy lay sick in bed. Frail, 87, a little querulous in his talk, he still seemed unaccustomed to this invalid ease, the result of a chill he lad caught a month before. His hands, as thin and brown as claws, played nervously with the edge of his quilt. James Barrie came to talk to him; Hardy's peaked mournful face was turned sideways on its pillow, his voice seemed shrill and tired as he spoke to the writer who, with himself, shares the honor of being most respected by the British public. For a few days Thomas...
...geometrical nude lady reclining on a crazy quilt which would have burned grandma's heart with envy, but who, withal, lends the impression of being a female, if not a lady...
...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...