Word: room
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next night 36 proud delegates attended a banquet given by the Civil Liberties Commission of the Colored Elks to honor six Congressmen chosen as champions of the underprivileged. A triumph was the banqueting place: the private red-&-gilt dining room (attached to the House Restaurant) of Speaker William Brockman Bankhead of Alabama...
Never a P-D legman, ireful Editor Coghlan often wanders down from the eighth to the third (city room) floor to wrangle happily with reporters. He takes a boisterous but effective part in the periodic poker games of the "Twelfth Street Country Club," a group of P-D oldtimers. When he built his present house in the Ladue district he asked his friends if they thought he was getting too near a creek. They said he was. He built there anyway. The creek made him mad, too-came right into his cellar...
...ended, "and while I am there I shall think of you often." He left the room amid the applauze of over 300 students, who had crowded the class to hear...
Visiting buyers, 700 strong, roamed through a ten-room Kentwood House, peered and poked at beds, chairs, desks, tables and sideboards that looked like classical pieces with the classical ornaments knocked off. Modernistic extremes were lacking, but living-room furniture was scaled down in size, upholstery was in modernistic shades of blue and pink. Proud Grand Rapidans called Kentwood a "distinct American style, capable of change to suit a changing world." Purists grumbled that it was a bastard style, neither classic nor modern...
...Exhibited at the Downtown Gallery was Making Music by Bernard Karfiol: two boys playing an accordion and a guitar in the luminous corner of an old, low, New England room with Colonial Primitive portraits on the wall behind them. Notable was the skill with which the painter made his own music of warm colors, cool light, suspended pattern...