Word: mansion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...formal charge was ever made against him and he was never brought to trial. He was released when the armies of Wu Pei-fu and Chang Tso-lin entered Peking on Apr. 10, 1926. On that day the chief executive, Tuan Chi-jui, fled from the presidential mansion to the foreign legation quarter in Peking and thence to a foreign concession in Tientsin, where he now resides...
...learned to sign a great many different names--the Forecasts have always been of money at it. He alternated this work with several ventures in the stone-breaking business, in which he handled some big government contracts. He died in Ossining, N. Y., in 1897 in a great stone mansion which excelled in splendor even that of John D. Rockerfeller in the neighboring town of Tarrytown. It was a magnificent place they say. I hope to go there some...
Died. Henry Luce Fuqua, 61, Governor of Louisiana since 1924; at the Executive Mansion in Baton Rouge; of internal gastric hemorrhages, suddenly. He had been a hardware merchant, cane sugar farmer, warden of the state prison. As Governor of Louisiana he had fought the Ku Klux Klan...
...colonial Mansion, soon to house an ancient matron, ghosts will walk. For the Widow now has skeletons within her closet. Since that famous gentleman who built the excellent tradition of the Widow's has departed, the Lady of Learning has waned. Indeed, more than a new carapace is needed--body, soul are requsite. For even a tutoring school must have both...
Between Charing Cross and Mansion House Station...