Word: cushions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...World's three-cushion billiard championship tournament in Manhattan...
...World's three cushion billiard championship tournament in Manhattan...
...private soldier in a shiny blue serge suit stood in the House of Lords last week and, grinning, plumped himself down on the woolsack, the oblong red cushion. traditional seat of the Lord Chancellor of Britain, and, next to the throne, the most honorable sit-spot in the empire...
...must to all men, Death came last week to Thomas Hastings, architect, of the firm of Carrere & Hastings, in Manhattan. In. a crowded memorial chapel, his coffin stood covered by autumn leaves overlaid with roses. Beside it, the Cross of the Legion of Honor lay on a plush cushion. Around it stood Architects Cass Gilbert, William Adams Delano, Chester Holmes Aldrich; Banker Thomas William Lament, Sculptor John Flanagan, many another notable, friend, relation. They sang "Rock of Ages," composed 100 years ago by Architect Hastings' grandfather. Someone recited Shelley's "Ode to a Skylark...
...Mayor of Badenvillier sat on a platform last week, a tricolor sash wrapped round his stomach. Before him on a velvet cushion lay the cross of the Legion of Honor, presented to the commune of Badenvillier by the French government. Donor of the cross, chief orator at Badenvillier's celebration was chunky, heavy mustached Paul Painleve, French Minister of War. Said...