Word: gingerbreads
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Newport is not what it once was. Although the massive, gingerbread homes of the opulent are still there, tourism and riotous jazz festivals have distorted the old style and spirit. Yet, among the get-away-from-it-all homes that Jackie and Jack Kennedy have used since he became President (Virginia's Glen Ora. Papa Joe Kennedy's Palm Beach mansion, and the Hyannisport complex), Newport has special meaning. It was on the green-lawned, Angus-stocked, 97-acre Hammersmith Farm, owned by her stepfather and mother, Hugh and Janet Auchincloss, that Jackie spent her youthful summers...
...borning" or "measles" room with a tiny cradle. From then on, the Americans began to indulge themselves. An 1825 Greek Revival room from Manhattan is as elegant as Claverton Manor itself. On the other hand, the museum offers a country store with period posters ("SOCIAL DANCE," "AUCTION! !") and gingerbread...
...Rathaus, or climbed up into the Vienna Woods to down seidels of foaming beer with their Liptauer cheese and black bread. Children played in the Schönbrunn gardens or stared solemnly at animals in the zoo; young lovers sat in the wine gardens of Grinzing, nibbling gingerbread and drinking young wine...
...huge gingerbread building in The Hague last week, 15 elderly jurists strode solemnly into the courtroom of the International Court of Justice to resume their deliberate deliberation of some of the world's less pressing problems. While the crises in Laos, Berlin, Suez and Cuba get settled-if at all-in the harsher corridors of power politics, the World Court contents itself with less basic disputes. The reason: no major power has so far entrusted the court with the decisions that most matter...
...Massachusetts State House looms imposingly on Beacon Hill, but the government it houses resembles a colonial saltbox overlaid with the bureaucratic gingerbread of the 19th and 20th centuries. The Legislature has patched up the holes in the Constitution with occasional adhesive tape and bobby pins, but still refuses to recondition its whole structure. Since the political atmosphere on the Hill fosters hesitancy and inertia, only a Constitutional Convention can accomplish complete and intelligent reform of the State's government...