Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hoare. Motto of the House of Hoare is Hora Venit, and last week it seemed indeed that the hour of Sir Samuel and Lady Maud had come. They were still in their big house at No. 18 Cadogan Gardens, but the estate agent's sign over their door read cheerfully: "LONG LEASE FOR SALE." An army of re-furbishers was busy in Admiralty House on Whitehall, cleaning and redecorating the official residence of the First Lord. Its 20 rooms are lofty, dignified and spacious, ideal for entertaining in the grand manner of the British Admiralty...
...that what she needed was ''more capital," marched off to try to get it from the Socialist Treasury. On being refused, they marched back and formally refused to take Mme Chanel's shop off her hands, she then refusing to keep it open and locking the door...
...emeralds which Napoleon III once gave to his mistress, the Contessa di Castiglione. Next day the reported purchase was denied, and in the U. S. arrived first pictures of the christening in London of Countess Barbara's burly three-month son Lance. Held up for photographers at the door of Marlborough House Chapel, gurgling Baby Lance showed less resemblance to his sleek parents than to his chubby grandfather, Franklyn L. Hutton, who beamed over Countess Barbara's shoulder...
Aging Actress Maxine Elliott, 63, friend of the late King Edward VII, whose villa on the French Riviera was nicknamed "The House of Lords," had it house-cleaned to entertain members of the suite of King Edward VIII, His Majesty now intending to spend August next door in the villa of Lord Cholmondeley (pronounced "Chumly...
...Edgar Erskine Hume, a proud and happy man. In his hand he carried a green clothbound book fresh from the Government Printing Office. Nodding happily to library workers, doctors and military men whom he passed, Major Hume, a medium-tall Kentuckian, pushed through the swinging shutter of his office door, put hat and coat in a wardrobe whose dried panels rattled, sat down at the solid oak desk which all preceding librarians of the greatest medical library on earth have used...