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...your Dec. 14 issue, you say that the six little girls who made the rug for President Coolidge tied 4,404,247,000 knots in ten months. Assuming that each girl worked every minute of ten hours a day, for ten months, your figures give each girl credit for having tied 1360 (approximately) knots a minute. Really, you know...
...little Armenian girls in Syria spent ten months tying 4,404,247,000 knots depicting an even gross of animals, and completed a rug for Calvin Coolidge's Christmas. He wrote to the Vice Chairman of the Near East Relief, Dr. John H. Finley...
...beautiful rug woven by the children in the orphanage in the Lebanons has been received. This, their expression of gratitude for what we have been able to do in this country for their aid, is ac- cepted by me as a token of their goodwill to the people of the United States. The rug has a place of honor in the White House, where it will be a daily symbol of good-will on earth...
...Coolidge looked about her with interest. "What a fine new vacuum cleaner! And how fresh the woodwork looks with its new paint. Those two harmonizing blue colonial wallpapers in our bedrooms are really very well chosen. Whatever is left of the $50,000 for renovation will buy a new rug for the Green Room...
Last week Harper's celebrated its 76th Anniversary. It appeared in a new cover of orange and black -a cover as suavely lurid as a tiger rug. It abandoned s practice of reproducing, under its title-head, a portrait, by some substantial master-folowed instead the example of The Dial, The Atlantic Monthly, The Yale Review by printing there its table of contents. There was little to remind the twitching ear-tabbed centenarian of the cover familiar to his halcyon days - the two roco pedestals that framed a page made acceptable for mid-centry boudoirs with a trinity...