Word: driveways
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...neighbors on peaceful Tuckahoe Lane in Memphis, the signs of Landon V. (for Victor) Butler's increasing wealth came in little ways. As the biggest commodity speculator in years, he was doing fine. First the gravel driveway at his small bungalow was blacktopped, then a curb was added-and then the whole thing was refinished in crushed brick. On the driveway, instead of a Buick there appeared a Cadillac, then a second one-with chauffeur to boot. Three years ago Commodity Speculator Butler bought himself a $300.000 house, added a swimming pool with cabanas; he bought...
...able to draw only $25,000 of her gift; the rest vanished "like fairy gold." Persuaded by his banker friends, Nast went into the stock market only a few months before the crash of 1929 and was wiped out. As for Editor Chase's mansion, only the driveway and a gardener's cottage were built. "Our driveway curving gracefully upward had cost $10,000 to build," she recalls, "and the gardener's cottage was so small that when we realized we would have to live there ourselves we were obliged to add a wing larger than...
...plus a $200 collection of chisels, wrenches, hammers, screw drivers, vises and pliers. For outdoor work he buys a $125 power lawn mower, a $35 hedge trimmer, a $115 chain saw for work on his trees, a $250 tractor to plow his garden and shovel snow from his driveway. By the time he is finished, he has as much as $2,000 invested in his new hobby, and he can build anything from a toothbrush rack to a ten-room house, and landscape the land...
...Kind of Choked Up." Johnny Lattner was imbued with the Notre Dame spirit the moment he set foot on the campus as a green freshman three years ago: "I came down that driveway and I saw that golden dome with the statue of our Blessed Mother all lighted up, and it was one of the biggest thrills of my life. I got kind of choked up, and I was awful glad I came here." The Notre Dame indoctrination, particularly of football players, is as relentless as the Marine Corps boot training. Johnny recalls: "The first night, they showed the movie...
About lunchtime the next day, the ex-President of the U.S. turned his car into the driveway in front of a brick Tudor house in fashionable North Indianapolis, Ind. Frank McKinney, Indiana's top machine Democrat, and his wife Margaret greeted their old friends. The Trumans went in, washed up and sat at the McKinney's dining-room table for lunch (melon-ball cup, breast of chicken on ham, asparagus, stuffed oranges, hot rolls, black currant preserves, strawberry angel...