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...traditional red "sword line," set into the rug before the front benches to make sure that government and opposition are two full sword lengths apart, may once have had historical justification. But I got the feeling that today's honorable members really need armor, not in front but in back, to protect themselves from the quills of their fellow party members...
There was always a cuspidor planted on his library rug, and he could make it chime like a bell. Ladies covered their ears at his "hells" and "damns," but everybody agreed he was a stout old character. He was Speaker of the House of Representatives and his full name was John Joseph Gurney Cannon, but Americans called him "Uncle...
...most common difficulty, of course, is housebreaking. He remembers a gentleman who bought a small pup at the same time he was refurnishing his house with new carpets. The first day he came home, he found a small wet spot in the middle of the new living room rug. Seizing the quivering dog, he threw it out the window. Luckily, the window was on the first floor and the dog was unhurt. When the man returned the second day, he discovered a new puddle. Outraged, he again tossed the puppy out the window. By the third day he hoped...
Fire of undetermined origin swept Emerson Hall B last night causing extensive damage to a wall, furniture, books, rug, and an oil painting. Fire officials said that the painting was "valuable" and damage to it was "serious." Cause was due to a frayed elec-lamp cord. --from the CRIMSON, January...
...across the U.S. An ardent supporter of Fiorello La Guardia, and like him, volatile, unpredictable and tireless, she can be coy as Bo-Peep or brassy as Sergeant Quirt. Running her own labor-and public-relations business on the side, Mrs. Rosenberg (whose husband, Julius Rosenberg, is a Manhattan rug dealer) earned up to $60,000 a year for advising such clients as R. H. Macy & Co., I. Miller (shoes) and Nelson Rockefeller...