Word: bungalows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Great Britain. The Thames flooded the gardens of Windsor Castle, and forced the abandonment of Eton, famed British public school. Londoners rubbed their eyes as "a beautiful bungalow" floated past the squalid Limehouse docks. Indefatigable vicars rounded up their flocks and conveyed them to Sunday service in punts. The general flood situation improved notably...
...first act there is a diamond robbery and somewhere in the second a minstrel show. The amazing Marxes contribute scene after scene of rattle-brained revelry. Groucho (with the cigar) and Harpo (he says nothing) are the principal disturbances. Mr. Berlin has contributed two excellent tunes, "A Little Bungalow" and "Florida," and Mr. Harris brilliant masses of costume and scenery. And the result of all this is that for some little time you will probably encounter considerable difficulty in buying tickets...
...Chicago the President and his party were met at the station by an escort of 100 uniformed policemen, and whisked away to the Hotel Sherman Annex. There they were quartered in a two-story bungalow just completed on the roof of the hotel, 300 feet above the street, on the 27th story, with a garden, fountain, dining room, reception hall and four bedrooms. The bedrooms were of no great use to the President, because he arrived early in the morning, went to the bungalow for a couple of hours, addressed the Farm Bureau Federation in the ballroom of the hotel...
Last week the roof of the Park Chambers Hotel, Manhattan, appealed to the luxuriant inhabitant of many mansions as a bungalow site. Gloria Swanson, now La Marquise de la Falaise, approved plans for a $50,000 roof-cottage, to be built immediately from plans already drawn; left for a few weeks vacation in France, while construction is getting under...
...Florida realtor followed Bryan's motor in another bungalow on wheels, placarded : "Ask us about Tampa ! Ask us ! Ask us!" Countered Mr. Bryan, himself a Miami, Fla., realtor: "You don't need to ask us about Miami...