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...musty elegance of Dublin's old Shelbourne Hotel, a knowing audience of Irish socialites, critics and Government officials gathered for a song recital. The most conspicuous guest was a resident of the hotel: rotund Tenor John McCormack, 60, who sat on a horsehair sofa in the corner, listening with closed eyes...
...days. Had the United States Hotel been furnished 20 years sooner it would have caught the end of the gracious early-Victorian style-and its contents would have brought untold sums last week. As it was, few collectors and decorators wanted the garish brocades and machine-carved chair-and-sofa sets on the auction block. Records showed that most of this fusty flotsam had come from Manhattan's great A. T. Stewart department store, predecessor to John Wanamaker's. But no records showed who had designed the pieces or the hotel itself. One guess was that the hotel...
...bared chest. She got hold of one emaciated hand, brought her ear closer to his face, called his name, but he did not hear her. His blackened mouth continued moving. She bent down and heard a child's broken, muted patter-the young man on Anna's sofa was back in the nursery, afraid of dark corners and curtained windows, and, listening, Frossia was ashamed of her earlier hardness...
...become the mistress of the editor of a St. Louis literary magazine. Lily settled down with her new husband in a five-room apartment on a St. Louis side street where the furnishings included an enormous bed of French Empire style, a William & Mary highboy, girandole mirrors, a sofa of beechwood, an upholstered rocker, and "a flock of odds and ends, worthless as antiques, but authentic relics of the ball-fringe, loveseat, blackwalnut, gilded-cattail era of curvature and upholstery. . . ." The strangest quality of Hallelujah is that without specific descriptions Fannie Hurst manages to make this superheated atmosphere quiver with...
...lush characters (Dickie, the epicene interior decorator, pipes: "I'm upholstering Fifi Vallambrosa's sofa entirely in ... tweeds. . . . We all know [it's] a one-story riding academy. What more endurable than tweed for the sporting life...