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Word: rugs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Mr. Coolidge s Week: Sep. 21, 1925 | 9/21/1925 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Harper's | 8/31/1925 | See Source »

...mother's black stockings there yawns "a sad hiatus" when he sits. Friends of the family swell the audience, including three painters-Ford Madox Brown, Laurence Alma-Tadema, Dante Gabriel Rossetti. A lissom youth with auburn hair and a weak but beautiful countenance stretches on the rug, slightly disconcerting the actors by chanting the lines with them in a melodious undertone. He is called Algernon Swinburne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Player* | 8/24/1925 | See Source »

...applied arts, plumbing and heating were less stressed than in the U. S. exposition; rug-making, stained glass, lace, goldsmithery were glorified in bannered booths. Special pavilions were consecrated to French wines, French cookery. A lottery bond loan provided the funds for this national advertisement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: In Paris | 5/11/1925 | See Source »

Died. Zep, mammoth black bear, mascot of the Passaic, N. J., High School Basket Ball Team (TIME, Feb. 16, SPORT); at Wayne, N. J. His team had rejoiced in 159 straight victories. His skin will be converted into a rug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 23, 1925 | 3/23/1925 | See Source »

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