Word: mansion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis received a letter from Representative Rankin, Democrat from Mississippi. The Congressman first related that in the Robert E. Lee mansion at Arlington, Va., there hangs an autographed copy of a speech by Robert G. Ingersoll. This, said the Congressman, "is offensive to every decent, loyal, self-respecting individual from the South. . . an unusual and unnecessary desecration" of the Lee mansion...
...mother. This they did, at first, but as she grew up, the affection lavished upon Ailsa by her father drew her most closely to him. After schooling at home and abroad and making her debut in Pittsburgh, she became his constant companion and the chatelaine of his sumptuous mansion...
...young gentleman's intention that his countrymen might find in the book much that would take them home from wherever they might be on the earth. So he wrote of the fragrance and spaciousness of an Irish mansion as old as the green sod it stood in. He kept bringing in the sweep of Irish history through the ancient family trees-old kings and warriors and battles from Queen Maeve in the day of giants to tart Timothy Healy, and the Fenian men humming the "Shan Van Voght," the Song of Defeat, which is through the book like...
...Robert Todd Lincoln mansion in Manchester, Vt., is only 18 miles from Bennington, and I have had the pleasure of having a number of interesting chats with this gentleman. Very nice character and interesting...
...retired to the Pullman board chairmanship and has since avoided the public eye. From his summer home at Manchester, Vt., or his big brick mansion in Washington, he issues into the limelight only on very pressing occasions, such as the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial by President Harding on May 30, 1922, or the hanging of his mother's portrait in the White House a fortnight ago, (TIME, Mar. 1, THE PRESIDENCY...