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...throatful of smoke from the flares of red fire that were burning on the driveway and excused himself. Back to the dining room he went with his sons Franklin Jr. and John, to enjoy the job of tabulating his masterpiece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Master piece | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

...thing. That's why I can hardly bear to talk for publication about the event before it happens. That's why I have been a shut-in for so long. You have been here five weeks, and you have seen for yourself how tourist cars lined the driveway between our house and the hospital where my quintuplet daughters continue to be a daily and Sunday tourist attraction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Un Gros Gar | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

Comfortable though the Admiral's cottage is, it has not yet been wired for electricity. At 9:30 one evening last week he sat in his small drawing room reading the papers to his wife. There came a crunching of feet in the gravel driveway. An elderly housemaid announced that some young men wished to speak to the Admiral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRISH FREE STATE: Recruiter | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

...respect Warm Springs was different from the health resort he visited in previous years: on every driveway in the Foundation grounds CCC men were posted as traffic officers, letting no car enter without a pass from Foundation headquarters, while around the Little White House was drawn a cordon of U. S. Marines, a picked detachment from Quantico. Of late the Secret Service has been obviously anxious about its charge's safety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: To Georgia | 12/2/1935 | See Source »

...monastic eloquence powerful enough to cast a spell over the most sated denizen of Copley Square and the Mayfair. As if the leaded glass windows and pointed archways were not near enough the road to Rome, the architect of the citadel above Lake Waban placed in the driveway a statue in cold, gray stone, a statue of the Madonna. As he drove up the hill the Crimson editor took notice of the homing Wellesley students ambling along beside his car. Nearing the top, he turned to his companion and, never expecting the half-surprised and half-indignant answer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 11/14/1935 | See Source »

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