Word: mansion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Item: One handsome hero who has just inherited the cursed mansion and $250,000 in bonds hidden therein...
...Even in Albany, where she has presided over the social life of the Executive Mansion for seven years, few women really know her. They see her at the inaugural balls and occasionally at a small dinner. Her face is familiar as it is framed against the back seat of an open Packard, license No. 2. The Dutch aristocracy of Albany noted the gradual improvement of her appearance as the sales-ladies of Altman's [Manhattan department store] have become more adept at finding becoming gowns for her, and on the rare occasions when she stands in the receiving line...
...made friends in Albany. When she first came to the city with her young assemblyman husband, she was not urged to become a part of one of the most exclusive societies in America. Later, as it became apparent that the Smiths would be fixtures in the Executive Mansion, invitations to luncheons and dinners began to pour in. She was equally indifferent to the snubs and the flattery. The Executive Mansion was filled with her friends of Oliver street days and she had neither time nor inclination to cultivate a new circle of acquaintances. Al himself delivered one sharp rebuke...
...Girl from Chicago. Little Mary Carlton, when she comes to Manhattan from her ancestral mansion in the South, tells the gang of crooks who have packed her brother off to prison for a murder he did not commit, that she comes from Chicago. In view of this admission, even her inability to smoke cigarets as if she had done it before does not convince the bad men that she is not a racketeer. Eventually, with the aid of the police and some airplanes, she saves her brother and wins the love of the detective who has been masquerading...
Governor Sampson held an inaugural ball at the executive mansion, where dancing had been forbidden all during the Fields administration...