Word: rug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...death in childbirth during the Caporetto retreat of 1917. There are numerous incidental characters who inhabit the play as they did the novel; but in the novel they were neat carvings on a walnut shell. In the play they are thinned and twisted into a helter-skelter, rag-rug pattern. Mr. Stallings is not to be censured for what he has done in all force and sincerity. But it takes more than force to expand a small frieze and keep it significant...
...were as testy then as the merchants are now. For a long time many refused to sell. When the land was at last procured, cottages, studios and an inn were erected. Nearby a farm was laid out to feed the colonists. Besides painting, classes in furniture-making (later dropped), rug-weaving, metal-working and pottery were instituted. The farmers' attitude is indicated by a Le Gallienne anecdote: "One of them recently interviewed as to what he thought of the artists when they first came . . . replied, 'Wall, to tell the truth we thought they was a bunch of wild Indians...
Carpets. Most famed Persian rug is "The Emperor's Hunting Carpet," woven in the 16th century reign of Tahmasp Shah who was to Persian art as was Louis XIV to French. A border string of clear gold cartouches separates the ruby field from the main border. Vines rise in colliding spirals of great blossoms, leaves, tendrils. Wild animals fight. Shah Abbas the Great presented it to Russia about 1600, Tsar Peter the Great to Habsburg Leopold...
...Chilean Ambassador to the U. S., Señor Don Carlos G. Dávila, some time ago received a mysterious package from India. In it was a rare Moslem rug which an attached note offered to the Ambassador for $10,000. If he did not want this rug, said the note, would he please "return" it to a specified Manhattan address? Puzzled, the Ambassador consulted the U. S. State Department...
...obeys. After the tea is over, this is what he sees : ''A beautiful Chinese urn had been smashed. A chair had been hurled through a studio window. Someone had danced on the polished floor with hobnails. There were nine burns from abandoned cigarets in the expensive rug. A drink had been spilled in the grand piano. Someone had left a lighted cigar on a mahogany side table. An entire bottle of ginger ale had been prankishly poured on a beautiful chair upholstered in brocaded silk. An arm had been chipped from a bit of statuary Mme Clore...