Word: mansion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sleeper, the motherly woman awoke, thought she had heard a thunder clap, dropped off again. She was fatigued after her previous day's campaigning for renomination by the Democrats. When she heard what had happened, she proceeded to her home townlet of Temple right nearby, telephoned the executive mansion at Austin to say she was all right, and, when the sun shone once more, went on making political hay by calling in friends and appearing no whit shaken up by her experience...
During the past two years many a sympathetic traveler has paused before the tall barred gates of a great mansion in Yamaguchi (Western Japan). Its blinds have remained closely drawn. Within Masataro Namba, head of that once proud family, has lived with his brothers and their families in a retirement scarcely less secluded than that of the grave. Until a year ago, their aged father, once a member of the Imperial Diet, shared this seclusion with them, then died of brief...
Married. Teresa Higginson, 25, hard-riding huntress; to Count Giangiulio Rucellai, 22, student at the University of Rome and resident of Florence, Italy; from the Higginson mansion in Lenox, Mass., where her mother and father have lived since her father George, scion of Boston Higginsons, retired from a lucrative promotion business in Chicago...
...people crowded into the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, and the mass said by Patrick Cardinal Hayes lasted an hour and a half, in the presence of two and a half truck loads of flowers. A wedding breakfast for 1,000 was served in the Executive Mansion, Sherry's doing the catering. The wedding gifts included a diamond and emerald bracelet (from the Downtown Tammany Club of New York City), two diamond bracelets, four oriental rugs, a dozen silver plates (from the State troopers), a Whistler etching, two carloads of early American furniture, a sapphire bow, a gold...
...take charge of the destinies of the nation, when onetime President Taft was called from his retirement to become Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, when a unique conference for the limitation of naval armaments assembled in Washington, when Woodrow Wilson, broken in health, retired from the old white mansion at 1601 Pennsylvania Ave. and went to live quietly in a house on S Street in the northwestern part of Washington?Vice President Dawes, taking in his hand an historic trowel, laid a great marble slab upon a steel casket containing masonic emblems...