Word: velvets
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Only for the most feminine of ladies is the velvet-hung bedroom by John Well-born Root of Chicago. Peach-rose, grey and silver are the dominant shades. A mirror, framed with willowy figures in black and white etched glass, is lighted indirectly from behind. Visitors are captivated by the semicircular pewter dressing table and swivel chair for the convenient or pensive rotation of the owner...
...Velvet-collared black or dark blue coats...
...parade turns into the Red Room, with its hot velvet wall covering and over-stuffed furniture. Conversation dwindles as the Presence is approached...
...guest bows-and soon finds himself in the Genoese velvet Green Room. Just beyond is the spacious, cream-paneled East Room with gold damask draperies and twelve Æsop's Fables in low relief. Here amid more potted palms, the line of march disperses...
...inquire "Which were better, the years 1880 to 1910, or the years 1910 to 1929?" In the early primeval times of Big Business the Elder Morgan was simply the biggest, most voracious brontosaurus. In the present years of Titanic Business it is the Morgan hand in a velvet glove which directs a fiscal juggernaut capable of thun dering over mere business brontosauri. Il Magnifico in all his purple pride never had to do with a loan of more than 200 million dollars; but austere, reserved, patrician "Mr. Morgan" quietly arranged the Anglo-French loan of a half-billion dollars...