Lord David Cecil was famous at Oxford University for beginning a lecture by sketching his idea of heaven : He would spend eternity sitting before a fire in a book-lined study, wearing a smoking jacket and carpet slippers and reading Jane Austen.
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Using a studio next door to the Covent Garden opera house in London, Picasso, clad in carpet slippers, laid out the canvas on the floor and painted it with a brush attached to a broom handle and a toothbrush for the more detailed work.
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The men wore bright red flannel, felt clothes, and spiked boots to hold them onto the floating logs; these boots chewed up the wooden sidewalks and flooring of the local bars, leading one hotel owner to supply carpet slippers to all river drivers who entered his hotel.
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The first half of the book relates Rupert's most dramatic incidents as Kensingtowe, including an ongoing " war " with his Housemaster, the so-called " Carpet Slippers ", receiving beatings and punishments, learning to do what is right, and his greatest hour winning the school relay swimming race, only to be disqualified, then made a prefect on account of his maturity in dealing with the disappointment.
