Word: walnut
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...making her society irresistible. . . . We have a very attractive and beautiful home, the house being surrounded by beautiful grounds, artistically laid out and not wishing to boast, it is considered one of the show places of the Cincinnati suburbs, located on a most beautiful street, 3006 Fairfield Avenue, East Walnut Hills. . . . Hoping to receive a favorable reply. . . . (signed) Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Alter...
...figure which is that neither of scarecrow nor monster but of a man, whose absurdities are entirely comprehensible, whose pretensions are more pathetic than laughable. Equipped with the abilities of a reporter as well as those of a biographer, Author Hibben has been able to preserve the plush and walnut of the period in which Preacher Beecher flourished; to make his people move about stiff and surprising but none the less actual, like the preposterous people of an antique tintype, brought suddenly to life. The Author. A graduate of Princeton in 1903,* Paxton Hibben has served in the Army...
...French & Co., dealers, for $15,000. Everyone was bidding now. Most of the dealers and agents sat in the back of the room, among them Frank Partridge, Esq., of London, who was rumored to be representing the King of England. He bought a suite in golden walnut and velvet, made in 1695, for $12,500; also some 1795 painted Sheraton side-seats the backs of which were covered with petit-point, and a segmental side-table of about 1780, fitted with a carved lambrequin and finished in cream and gold...
...dealer made most of his bids by leaning back and nonchalantly tugging the coat of an auctioneer who stood near him and who appeared to translate these tugs into dollars according to their strength. The most interesting item on the fourth day was a pair of William and Mary walnut chairs sold to Alvin T. Fuller (Governor of Massachusetts) for $1100. Receipts for four days of the sale totaled $490,200. And still, in the soft red room, the fluid light poured and eddied; the fine people came and went; the voice of the auctioneer trickled...
Last week his remains were disinterred and transferred to Berlin aboard a special train. There the body rested in state at Grace Church, inclosed in a simple walnut coffin, and was visited by thousands of Berliners, who filed reverently past "The Flying Siegfried...