Word: heiress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...took refuge in New York, and married the heiress and art patron Peggy Guggenheim a year later. After the war ended, he divorced Peggy, married Artist Dorothea Tanning and built a house in Arizona. Life there resulted in a magnificent series of Arizona mountains, bleak and burning under their immobile suns...
...difficult old woman," remarked a staff member of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, musing on the late Adelaide de Groot, heiress to a vast fortune derived from her father's success in the China trade. "The more presentable junior employees had to take turns squiring her around, pushing her wheelchair. And all to get that damn bequest...
...White House - Richard Nixon's Key Biscayne and San Clemente, Lyndon Johnson's ranch. In years to come, the presidential style of leisure may be considerably grander. Last week Nixon signed a bill accepting an official new winter hideaway for the Presidents. It is Cereal Heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post's 110-room, $7,000,000 Mar-A-Lago, in Palm Beach, a kind of Moorish Xanadu built on 17 acres of hard coral between the Atlantic ocean front and Lake Worth...
...always fled from domestic problems. He was married twice, first to an ethereal aristocrat who declined to keep house, then to an heiress who tried to run his life. According to Birmingham, Marquand behaved badly to both, absenting himself for long periods of time or berating them publicly. He liked to mimic and mock them, and Birmingham unfortunately lets that tone of parody carry over into his own writing...
...heroine. Rose Vassilou, might be a cousin of Jane Gray in her most recent book, The Waterfall. Rose is divorced, with three small children and a national reputation as an "eccentric." What really caused her notoriety was money. A major Midlands heiress, she had enraged her family by marrying a penniless Greek boy and giving her inheritance away to a dubious African relief fund. The family squabble made all the tabloids. Ten years later, Rose is found raising a family in a working-class district of London while her tempestuous ex-husband, now making plenty of money, bedevils...