Word: mansion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meeting with newsmen a few hours after the White House announced his resignation, McElroy said he planned to end his government task during the evening and witness the swearing in of Gates tomorrow at a ceremony in the executive mansion...
LAST week, while U.S. citizens thought about their 1959 cards, Hall was going over the 1960 line, studying it during the day, taking it home at night to see how it looked by the light of the fireplace in his Georgian mansion set on a 700-acre farm outside Kansas City. Some time soon, Christmas 1960 will go to press, and next year every American will get at least one greeting card the original of which is back at Hallmark bearing a curt...
...Mansion, by William Faulkner. The final installment of a wild, grim-comic trilogy (its predecessors: The Hamlet, The Town), in which Flem, the worst of the Snopeses, gets his due in death...
...Boston's social top drawer. Occasion: a performance of selections from French Composer Jean-Philippe Rameau's comic ballet Platée (1745), with French Tenor Michel Sénéchal in his U.S. debut. Place: the 60-seat, century-old Varieties Theater in the Brookline mansion of Boston Socialite Mrs. George Shattuck, one of the few surviving private stages...
...Mansion, by William Faulkner. Despite awkwardness, even sloppiness, in the writing, this last installment of the Snopes trilogy (earlier novels: The Hamlet, The Town) remains a smoldering personal testament to the worst in the American South and the worst in man. Edison, by Matthew Josephson. An able biography of the deaf, eccentric, agnostic genius who may not have been the world's greatest inventor, but who had no equal as an inventor-promoter...