Word: carpeted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Trotzky spat on the chair where the Czarina used to sit. That made it emphatic when he said, "Quite right, Lenin." Then Lenin and Trotzky rang for ex-Prince Michael, who came in, stepping on the red rattlesnake embroidered in the carpet...
...growing all the time, but is sure to run its course in a few years like other organizations of violence. I think it remarkable that the Clan has won so many supporters in the North and West, for it grew up as a protection for the Southerners against the carpet-bagger. The reason that this organization has been able to enlarge its scope so successfully is because it has everywhere appealed to local religious and racial antagonisms. Throughout the North and West, however, the same methods of violence are employed as in the South...
...Wells meaning is not that history has ceased to exist, but that it has grown too large. Its picturesqueness and its glamour have been taken over to the province of the novelist. Both are essential just as the warp and the woof in the weaving of a carpet...
...more used to the aigrette, than to the pen do not response easily to the new demands; his humor somehow lacks that airy step of one who is well-fed and content with the universe. Yet now that this creature stands in the middle of our own clean carpet, was are rather obligate to decide what we will do with him. For though he arrogating pretends that he is the master, we know better. He is before us holy on sufferance is it not our carpet...
...plain with you. I am informed it is not proper for female perusal.' 'My dear good lady,' replied the author, 'do not be gulled by such service; the book is like your young heir there (pointing to a child of three years old, who was rolling on the carpet in his white funniest, he shows at times a good deal that is usually concealed, but it is all in perfect innocence...