Word: carpeted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...soldiers, commanded by Azmi Pasha, were starting for Cairo as an escort of the Holy Carpet, the immemorial piece of rug that covers the Kaaba in the Mosque at Mecca. Because of friction between Sultan Ibn Soud and King Fuad of Egypt, the Holy Carpet had not gone to Cairo for two years, but this year things looked better; the King of Egypt had a chance of being made Calif of Islam; the rug started on its journey, accompanied by the soldiers and followed by a brass band which blared out, with wandering horns and cymbals, an Egyptian marching song...
...President Coolidge last week withdrew his nominations for three Federal appointments in Georgia-Tilson for U. S. Judge, Deaver for U. S. Attorney, Parvis for U. S. Marshal-as a courtesy to the Georgia Senators, who had intimated to the Senate Judiciary Committee that Tilson was a carpet bagger...
...carpet-bag" was a traveling bag usually made of carpeting. "Carpet-bagger" came to be applied to fly-by-night adventurers who appeared in the South after the Civil War and set themselves up without any material baggage or backing to exploit the community...
...rooms were bowers of flowers?pink hydrangeas, pink roses, larkspur, peonies, ferns, spruce. Disjecta membra of the Marine Band, in three sections of the building, played the wedding march from Tannhauser, as the bride and bridegroom entered and crossed the Aztec Garden and passed the reflecting pool on a carpet of scarlet velvet...
...might consent to go into exile "after two or three years, when things have quieted down, but not now." He said that the hearts of loyal Riffi are so constructed that they could not possibly turn from Krim to "the French sultan." He spoke uninterruptedly for hours, "sold the carpet" until it could not be seen which end was which...