Word: rug
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...guest. He was permitted to roam through the White House and observe the alter- ations-more bookshelves in the President's upstairs study; bigger and better linen closets ("Wives of Presidents in years to come will bless the name of Mrs. Calvin Coolidge," said Mr. Brisbane); a new rug in the Red Room in the middle of which is an angry eagle with E Pluribus Unum above his head, with an olive branch in his right claws, arrows in his left. The eagle is glaring at the arrows and Mr. Brisbane said: "Wise bird, he knows that...
...drawing-room, Mr. Healy began to throw things and the others joined him. The bottles were their favorite ammunition, but when the last pint had crashed into "The Old Man's" (by Rubens) forehead, its dregs and fragments joining the unholy litter on the rug, they picked up vases, jars, bookends, ash trays. They caved in the forehead of the youngest Lommelini (by Van Dyck), raked the mother's face with chair legs, sent a bottle-neck through the Lommelini daughter's cheek. One of them yanked open the vitals of a $17,000; built-in parlor...
...strip. Vanity (Leatrice Joy, Charles Ray). A characteristic of De Mille productions is that all display must be super-grand. Is it a ball? The room spreads as vast as Grand Central Terminal. Is the heroine a social lioness? Her train covers as much ground as the hall rug. The plot substance, by compensation, is minute. In this instance, the heroine visits a onetime admirer aboard his ship on the eve of her wedding to the hero. The admirer wants too much for his flattery, so she flees...
...exactly according to schedule. The only unwonted incident was a sandstorm which forced the machine to turn back and wait a few hours at Jask, Persia, last week. There the local Kahn of Kelat made the waiting time pass swiftly by commanding his minions to roll up a priceless rug from the floor and take down a jeweled swordl from the wall. The rug to Lady Maud. The sword to Sir Samuel. Then they flew...
While he is in the Museum the vagabond ought not to miss seeing the famous Persian rug known as the "Emperor's carpet" which will be on exhibition until Thursday. Entirely aside from the beauty of the rug itself, much of its interest lies in its history. Woven about 1550, probably at Ispahan, it was used in the palace of one of the Safidian monarchs and was later presented to Peter the Great of Russia. In 1698, Peter, wishing to express his appreciation of the hospitality of Leopold I, Emperor of Austria, to whom he had paid a visit presented...