Word: quilts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge acquired ten large balls of yarn and began 18 months' work on a great quilt or bedspread, knitted, to bedeck a fourposter in the state bedroom of the White House. Every mistress of the White House from Dolly Madison to Mrs. McKinley made something to leave behind her in the executive mansion...
Thoroughbreds. Paternity puzzles in the Theatre are likely to be intricately uninteresting. An absorbing pattern of drama must be sketched to make the spectator care just who is her father. In place of drama, the authors of Thoroughbreds have designed a crazy quilt of odds and ends stitched in from all the parent pieces of this particular...
...scintillated daily at the breakfast table. It was a period of literary brilliance, and the chilly reaches of the Back Bay were warmed under the sun of national esteem. Of late years, however, Boston has lost much of its quondam glory. Its great ones have departed, and the eiderdown quilt of mediocrity has descended upon its literature and its drama...
...dismal day. Even the sun balks at smiling on this puppets' college with its box dormitories set up about its crazy-quilt campus, and its infant incubators down by the river. There is symbolism in those twin chimneys of the capitalist power plant. Some day they will fall through the feeding troughs of Smith Halls as through egg-powder, and with them this whole idea-starved society will come crashing to the ground...