Word: rococo
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...Solomon Gump left his grocery store in Tallahassee, Fla., went to California. When he saw the rococo mansions which new millionaires were building on San Francisco's Nob Hill, he opened a furniture store, later expanded into the arts. Soon every self-respecting mansion on the West Coast had something from Gump...
...Little Journeys (one part fact, three parts fancy). Biblical inspiration coined such popular aphorisms as "Blessed is the man who does not bellyache." Emulating William Morris' idealistic experiment in fine books and hand craftsmanship, Hubbard founded the Roycroft Shops. His brand of Guild Socialism consisted of turning out rococo limp-leather-bound reprints selling from $2 to $250 ("not how cheap, but how good"), together with his glorified soap premiums in handicraft...
Befitting the owner of a telephone system-and as an example to niggardly one-phone customers-Mr. Moore has 23 telephones, 17 direct lines (seven more phones, 14 more lines than A. T. & T. President Walter Gifford) in his ten-room rococo Caro house. All but one (a living-room extension) have individual listings and numbers in the phone books. Friends acquainted with the phoneman's habits can, by calling Caro, Mich., 583, catch him in Bathroom No. 3. A request for 584 will connect the caller with the Southwest Bedroom; 592 with the Furnace Room; 597 with...
...January 4, 1932 out of the gloomy General Grant rococo of the State Department emerged the figure of an intense, chivalrous man, Colonel Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of State. He descended the long flight of steps, stalked across the street, entered the White House offices where he was closeted with President Herbert Hoover. Three days later a U. S. note went out to call Japan's attention to the Kellogg-Briand Peace pact. A copy of the note went to the other signatories of the Nine-Power Treaty in order to invite them to cooperate in putting pressure...
...Barnsbury, London, has demonstrated. Mr. Milsom, a backyard esthete, has prettied up the corrugated iron bomb shelter lent him (rent free) by the Government. The shelter's roof has been converted into a rock garden, a horseshoe ornaments the entrance, Christmas tree lights are strung inside. Presumably the rococo goldfish tank on the roof will be taken inside in case of trouble...