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...front was yellow, blue and red. Inside, the woodwork was bleached oak. The walls were pastel blue. The goods were displayed on the counters in grocery-store fashion. In the back was a storeroom. The price was $6,500 for the store (which naturally did not include the building), $3,500 for the stock. In two days Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett sold nine stores...
...Despite the attraction which spring weather renders the great out of doors, there is a necessity for spending all of the sleeping hours and a great many of the waking hours in the rooms. While painting is going on this is naturally impossible, and even after the walls and woodwork have received their rejuvenation, the atmosphere which clings to the room is anything but conductive to concentration...
...sickbay. When the big guns started, "the heavens resounded like an iron dome struck by Titans' hammers." The Russian shells were armor-piercing but often nonexplosive; the Japanese shells exploded on contact, started hundreds of fires on the Russian ships, which were heavily overdecorated with woodwork. The Japanese gunners concentrated their aim at the leading Russian ships; the Russians shot at anything they could see. First casualty was the Oslyabya. Pounded by six Japanese cruisers, her guns went silent one by one. The jar of each Japanese hit was like "hundreds of iron rails . . . dropped from a great height...
Mary by an Englishman, Artist Cecil Beaton. "The decorations have a monotony without uniformity," wrote this lily-loving young photographer of noble ladies. "There is too much woodwork. . . . The main lounge sadly misses the discarded Duncan Grant mural. The effort at being modern is decidedly forced. . . . The Veranda Grill, however, is by far the prettiest room on any ship. . . . When constructing a boat, even a luxury liner, the English do not consider their women very carefully...
While repainting Lowell House's tall Tower recently, the members of the Maintenance Department were puzzled to find a bright new arrow driven deeply into the woodwork. It was supposed at first that someone had been hunting pigeons from the rooftops. Investigation proved however that a local archer had let fly in irritation after being disturbed by the infamous Bells...