Word: scrollwork
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...were laid, a bar installed, and a brand-new international round table built-a plywood ring, 14 feet in diameter, set on brown varnished legs. Separate chambers were provided for each of the foreign ministers. Mr. Molotov had the most elegant: a paneled room with towering mirrors and gilt scrollwork which was once the Duchess of Sutherland's boudoir...
...there were iron deer on U. S. lawns, lending the last touch of grandeur to the fancy wooden scrollwork of the mansions behind them. Every home that could afford one had a "den," with leather armchair, pennants on the wall, an ashtray shaped like a skull. Lucky theatre-goers saw Ben Hur, with real horses racing madly on a treadmill track. Cars were called "au-to-mo-biles," 25 miles an hour was a devilish pace, a puncture a major accident. Against such a 1904 backdrop, Author Brinig this week published a lengthy (570-page) tale that covered...
...bought a 2,000-acre estate at Lloyd's Neck on Long Island. There he built a magnificent Georgian mansion overlooking Long Island Sound, a Georgian stable embellished with scrollwork, numerous cottages and barns, a 20-car garage, a power plant. He collected paintings. He kept prize Guernsey cows. He contributed to the Republican Party. He became a director of Columbia Gas & Electric Corp. and a dozen other companies. He helped support the Field Museum in Chicago. His grandfather's estate, of which he is one of the trustees, spent $4,000,000 building low-cost apartments...
...seventies, the eighties, and the nineties, this "Gazette" was a power in the land. Then all America, save for wicked Manhattan, was one vast hinterland. Men gathered their families under mansard roofs; little girls in gingham and pigtails kicked their high shoes against the scrollwork of the porch. When the broad highway was muddy wagon track, men made no stir to journey afield. The village bar answered a man's thirst; and in the village barber-shop every voice had its part...