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...England's poor. Hyde once proposed a great welfare project to King George V. The King called in the Duke of York, asked him to sponsor the project. "I will do it," said the future George VI, "but I don't want any of that damned red carpet (official receptions)." Sometimes he ran into another kind of red. On an inspection of the Welsh coal mines, the Duke was met by the secretary of the miners' federation, wearing a red tie and a red carnation. Housewives, "to demonstrate their political convictions," hung red petticoats on their clotheslines...
...Mill describes the two years Masefield spent in Yonkers, N.Y., in the late '90s, working for the Alexander Smith Carpet Mills. He worked first at straightening the metal tubes which held the yarns. Later, as "mistake finder," he learned the 30 processes which went into carpetmaking, and all the 1,500 colors, by tint and number. Masefield gives a real sense of the beautifully counterpointed complexities of mill work: "No man can be unmoved by the great concerted energy of many men and women." More than the work, he liked the food, the money and the leisure it gave...
...strides ponderously up & down the big, dark-paneled office, his wide feet sinking heavily in the taupe broadloom carpet. John Llewellyn Lewis is thinking. Now his pale thick hands are clasped behind him; now they jam in great fists in his coat pockets. Deep in his heavy chops he grips a cigar the size of an auto's gearshift, and like a gearshift the cigar slides slickly from point to point along the wide mouth. A mountain in a white suit, rumpled, tired, his whitening bale of hair shaking as he walks, the 61-year-old labor leader strolls...
Deep as the pile of a Templeton carpet are two secrets: where the Cabinet shelter is, where the bombed-out House of Commons is now quartered...
...steps he cocked his shoulder nervously, his left leg snapping up as he did so. ... And now I understand the meaning of an expression the party hacks were using when we sat around drinking in the Dreesen last night. They kept talking about the 'Teppichfresser,' 'the carpet-eater.' . . . They said Hitler has been having some of his nervous crises lately and that in recent days they've taken a strange form ... he flings himself to the floor and chews the edges of the carpet. . . ." Shirer saw Hitler again right after Munich: his nervousness was gone...