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...wear his subconscious on his chin. But the Shah of Persia, who affected still the long spiky bristle of the mandarin, was worried. When he heard how the naked chin of Peter gleamed blue and shameless in his new palace, Petersburg, upon the Neva, he sent him a fine rug as one who would say: In mystery the twig is bent, and a patch of hair divides one nation from another. Let peace be between us, my brother, although your shears are impudent...
Peter, called "The Great," died in his sullen city on the swamp. His beard then took its revenge and sprouted violently under the coffin lid; in time it, too, grew tired. Meanwhile the rug that had carried the forgiveness of Persia hung upon the wall of Leopold I, Sovereign under the Holy Roman Empire, and King of Hungary. Two weeks ago a Scotch art dealer landed in Manhattan. He had a trunk with him. The rug was in the trunk...
Last week it was ascertained that Comptroller General McCarl, "watchdog of the treasury," had spent $1,650 for new rugs in his office. Criticism from various departmental heads who have felt Mr. McCarl's blue pencil slashes, brought forth the explanation that "he might have paid $6,000 for one rug, as did a certain Cabinet official...
...doing all the housework of their apartment unless she should sweep the floors northward on odd days of the month, southward on even days. Ingenious, Mr. Klein and Mr. Platz kept track of the sweeping by observing each evening which way the nap lay on their living-room rug. Relentless, cruel, Mr. Klein and Mr. Platz detected wrong sweepings during January, February, April and June, withheld payment for those months...
Institute of Arts, where a scene of crime was revealed. Against the open window lay a woman, painted by Franz Hals, worth $40,000. Torn bodily from its place, disappeared, was an early Persian-silk animal rug, priceless example of its type and period. It, as well as the bust of the alabastine lady below, was the gift to the museum of Mr. and Mrs. Edsel Ford...