Word: sto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pont tower is probably the first private mausoleum in history with a six-passenger elevator, beacon lights and a carillon. Four concrete eagles stare from the tower's four corners, the Du Pont arms in concrete ornament the severe Renaissance façade. RECTITUDINE STO ("By rectitude I stand") is the motto carved above...
...experience. They were suggested mostly by reading, by places; once by a dream. If you were to ask him whether he believes in ghosts he would answer: "I am prepared to consider evidence and accept it if it satisfies me." He thinks he will probably write no more ghost sto ries. These he made up mostly for his own amusement; one ("A Neighbour's Landmark") for an Eton periodical; one ("Wailing Well") to scare the Eton Boy Scouts as they sat around their campfire...