Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Here is Gilbert's drainpipe." The President chose, however, to speak of one of Dutchess County's oldest stone houses built before the days of drain pipes. Said...
...built about 1740. It was the original Van Wagner homestead. They were one of the earliest settlers of the town. This shows that blood will tell." Said Supervisor-elect Van Wagner: "Gee, if I don't make good it's just...
Meteorological cataclysms were the terror of Blennerhassett's life. At the approach of thunderstorms, he bolted all the windows, buried himself in bed. Consequently, he built his island home of wood "to resist earthquakes." A noble edifice with two spacious wings, its lawns and gardens were as fine as any in England. Inside, "foreign frescoes colored the ceilings, the walls were hung with costly pictures, and the furniture, imported from Paris and London, was rich, costly and tasteful." The dining room sideboard offered a hospitality as fine as could be found in Virginia, for Blennerhassett Island, discovered by Surveyor...
...devoted, would be at his side today if an instant's inattention had not sent the car he was driving off the road and crashing into a tree (TIME, Sept. 9). The Queen is buried in Belgium but around the tiny plot of Swiss soil Leopold III ordered built a low wall with a cross erected inside. Indignantly the agent who effected purchase of this piteous plot said that its Swiss owners had "made things very difficult...
...been able to paint him as a man with surly grandeur, a magnificent snarl, a staggering, penetrating, shrewd instinct. Diaghilev assembled talent which spoke for the best in music, painting, dancing. Pavlova was with him for a time, but she soon formed her own touring company, so built around her own personality that she succeeded in spite of ragged musical accompaniment, shoddy, second-rate scenery. The Diaghilev company was peerless so long as it had Tamara Karsavina and Nijinsky who, according to Author Kirstein, established a landmark more with his stark choreography (L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune...