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Word: kubla (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1951-1951
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...acre San Simeon, where he rode with his father as a boy, Hearst decreed stately pleasure domes that would have awed Kubla Khan. He equipped the place with everything from giraffes to Roman baths, spent millions to give its vistas a Maxfield Parrish unreality-and insisted on paper napkins and ketchup bottles at the long refectory table because San Simeon was still "the ranch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The King Is Dead | 8/20/1951 | See Source »

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