Word: mansion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Imperial couple's new home, with its high roof, its stucco walls, its stone front, is more an English mansion than a Japanese residence. Within, awaiting them, were the ancient customary gifts: the Tai, king of fishes, the cask of purified saké, the hemp, incense, seaweed. There also was the bride's elaborate trousseau, including many a Parisian gown. Throughout the house sprawled electricity, plumbing. And further, Prince and Princess had gone to live in their very own home, not in the old fashioned way to the home of the bridegroom's parents. Further the Princess...
...General Secretary, are now slightly dwindling in membership. "People," said Mr. Thomas indignantly, "tell the workers not to believe what their leaders say, and say that the leaders have sold them." It is Mr. Thomas who has risen from a grimy engineer's cab to a snug little mansion with flagstone paths in the garden; to playing bridge with Peers; and to enjoying an occasional audience with His Majesty, who is reported to consider Laborite Thomas' ideas extremely sound...
...French equestriennes. Meissonier painted her portrait. Ludovic Halevy portrayed her in L'Abbe Constantin, the novel which won him a seat among the "40 Immortals" of the French Academy. While Mr. Mackay remained in the U. S., she crossed the Channel to London, repeated her triumphs. Her mansion on Carlton House Terrace was decorated with Gobelin tapestries, other valuable objets d'art. Edward VII, then Prince of Wales, was a constant, admiring visitor. She went to Moscow, where Tsar Alexander III pronounced her the most beautifully dressed woman at his coronation ball. In 1902 her husband died...
With due and appropriate pomp Herr Administrator Hoop was installed in his executive mansion at the Capital of Liechtenstein, Vaduz...
...Died. Charles Palmer, 82, Chicago architect, cousin of the late famed Potter Palmer; designer of the old Palmer House and of the Potter Palmer mansion which was recently sold to Brakemaker Vincent Bendix for $3,000,000; at Muskegon, Mich...