“But,” inquired John curiously, “who did plan all your wonderful reception rooms and halls, and approaches and bathrooms—-?”
“Well,” answered Percy, “I blush to tell you, but it was a moving-picture fella. He was the only man we found who was used to playing with an unlimited amount of money, though he did tuck his napkin in his collar and couldn’t read or write.”
–from “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz“, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Published in 1922.
Some things never change