Word: walnuts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sold to Harry Jacobs for $410) on which Mr. Long and the late Ella Wilson Long used to sit only at Christmas when they gave presents to the servants. In the French salon beneath an enormous pear-shaped crystal chandelier (sold to Dr. Abraham Sophian for $470), was a walnut and gold-leaf player piano (to Mrs. John K. Jasper; $1,325), a matching walnut cabinet for music rolls (to Mrs. Victor Schutte; $87.50). A rose and ivory French hand-piled rug was appraised at $8,000, sold for $500. Vases and urns, including a huge Austrian-ware receptacle decorated...
...first things she did was to move the millinery department down to the street floor, with the result that hat sales tripled. New departments were organized, floors remodeled, Grand Duchess Marie of Russia installed to run a photography studio. Last week at the president's desk in her walnut-paneled office Mrs. Odlum announced her slogan: "High class but not high hat." Last week Founder Bonwit retired, ostensibly because of ill health. General Manager Walter Bonwit, son of the founder, remains as Mrs. Odlum's righthand...
...years later Bardstown became the seat of a Catholic diocese which included Kentucky and Tennessee. Father Flaget, as Bishop, consecrated there the first Catholic Cathedral west of the Alleghenies. Corinthian columns were hewn from nearby forests and the interior was done in rich walnut...
...there any record of any of the masters painting any of the pictures at Bardstown. But whether the story is fact or fiction, Bardstown proudly exhibits its Cathedral with the pictures, gift of Louis Philippe, King of France, hanging too high for close inspection, cracking slowly against the rich walnut interior...
...ordinary living room, it was a study in green and brown. One whole wall was a bank of French windows facing on a sunny balcony. At opposite ends rose huge black marble fireplaces. Before one of them sat Mr. Farley, in a green leather armchair, at a walnut desk with a green glass top. He rose, blushing with pride, and declared: "We're certainly grateful to the Republicans for all of this." As the newshawks gaped, his pride overcame him. "Look at the bathroom!" he exclaimed. It was such a chamber as only ladies of the cinema bathe...