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Miss Jennie Jerome, daughter of a Wall Street broker, married one of the Churchills of Blenheim Palace, and a whole generation of debutantes sailed across the Atlantic in hopes of doing as well. By contrast, one of Ring Lardner's social-climbing heroines went to stay in an extravagantly expensive Palm Beach hotel in the hope of meeting a grandee like the Mrs. Potter Palmer of Chicago. When she finally did encounter her in a corridor, Lardner's narrator relates, the great lady only said to her: "Please see that they's some towels...
...wait until 1921, when she was 40 and he 49, for the Duke of Marlborough, a surly little man who hated "Yanks" but married two. His obsession was Blenheim Palace, and Gladys soon found she had married a house. As duchess, Gladys pruned roses, cultivated a rock garden full of snakes, and bred spaniels in the state rooms. Ennui soon turned to hatred. One night during a dinner party she placed a revolver beside her plate. Her startled partner asked her what she meant to do with it. "Oh! I don't know, I might just shoot Marlborough...
Fountains, statues and aviaries suggest the Cartesian excesses of Versailles. Other English formal gardens such as those at Sissinghurst Castle, Blenheim Palace and Henry VIII's Hampton Court featured mazes, topiary animals, tiny canals and ornate fountains
...Robert Southey, The Battle of Blenheim...
...Tycoon Rocky Aoki, president of the Benihana chain, and Financier Takashi Sasakawa have leased the old Shelburne Hotel for more than $1 million a year and are rushing to remodel it into a casino by spring. Further behind is Bally Manufacturing, which has leased a baroque landmark, the Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel. The company wants to tear it down, despite its entry in the National Register of Historic Places, but a local group intends to fight the plan in court...