Word: mansion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Over No. 15 Dupont Circle, late one afternoon last week, the Presidential flag dipped in the fresh breeze, rose for the first time to the top of the flagstaff there. Before the door of the white marble mansion, President Coolidge stood with his white collie, Rob Roy, posed for photographers, followed the dog over the threshold into his new home. Through the huge foyer he walked, past the costly Gobelin tapestry at his left, up the marble stairway lined with heads of mountain goats, lions, elk and caribou. Into the large room next to the library that...
Neighborhood. Across the street stands the Leiter mansion wherein George Nathaniel Curzon, who later became the Marquess of Curzon, late famed Foreign Secretary of Great Britain, married Mary Victoria Leiter, heiress of Levi Z. Leiter, Chicago storekeeper. Andrew W. Mellon lives in an apartment a block away. Nearby is the Belgian Embassy and the home of the late Senator Lodge. The White House is ten blocks distant...
...subscriber to TIME. In TIME, Jan. 24, I notice under MILESTONES : "Married, Constance Towner, daughter of Gov. Towner of Porto Rico; to one Lester B. Young; in San Juan, P. R. Hers was the first marriage in 400 years at the Executive Mansion, onetime Spanish." This statement is incorrect as I happen to have been present at the marriage of Miss Bertha Allen, daughter of the first Civic Governor of Porto Rico, to Captain George Logan, U. S. N. This marriage took place at the Executive Mansion...
...Governor Moody and 29-year-old Mrs. Mildred Moody (who married on Apr. 20 last) gone from the Capitol to the executive mansion, there they would have found on the table a piping hot meal. (Texas tradition requires that the outgoers do the incomers this courtesy.) But the Moodys did not touch this food. They did not set foot in the executive mansion. Instead they went to rooms in the Stephen F. Austin Hotel. At the executive mansion a thoroughgoing inventory is being taken. "I was long enough in the Army," said Governor Moody, "to learn not to sign...
Married. Constance Towner, daughter of Governor Horace M. Towner of Porto Rico; to one Leslie B. Young; in San Juan, P. R. Hers was the first marriage in 400 years at the Executive Mansion, onetime Spanish...