Word: mansion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sloan Simpson, 33, onetime model and more recently a department-store stylist. Miss Simpson chose a plain navy-blue suit for the ceremony this week. The couple planned to honeymoon aboard Industrial Engineer H. G. Matthews' yacht, Almar II, after a while head for Manhattan's Gracie Mansion, home of New York's mayors...
Puerto Rico's historic capital of San Juan busily prepared for a fiesta. At Governor Muñoz Marin's mansion, servants made ready for a party, washing the fine crystal, putting a high polish on the silverware. On traffic-jammed Ponce de León Avenue stood a huge welcome sign: Bien-venidos. In the plaza, the excited chatter was all about the opening this week of Puerto Rico's finest hotel, which islanders hope will be a rich new source of revenue and prestige for their economy...
...most ancient Roman Catholic squirearchies, and ever since the day of "Harry the Eighth, our royal goat" (as Charles Waterton described the monarch), they had been first plundered, then scorned by their Protestant rulers. But the Watertons had never surrendered either their faith or their ancient seat, a mansion on a lake-island in Yorkshire, and had even fought off Oliver Cromwell with swivel guns and muskets. It was no wonder, then, that when Charles, 2yth Lord of Walton, grafted a mad passion for wild life onto the old family root of religious fervor, the resulting bloom resembled a Jesuit...
Lord Rothschild was having trouble giving away Rushbrooke Hall, the family home near Bury St. Edmunds, England. Two neighborhood councils had already turned down the gift of the 60-room mansion, which has 365 windows in need of washing, would require one ton of coal daily to be heated properly for a school or hospital...
...British fortress for years-they only hope that it can be a trading post at the same time. So far, the Chinese Communists have respected British power-and Hong Kong's usefulness to them as a source of supplies from the outside world. But in his mansion up on "The Peak," overlooking the colony, Sir Alexander admitted that the Reds might change their attitude. "They're working on a short-term basis now," said His Excellency. "When short term becomes long term, no one but China's Communists know...