Word: mansion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...according to her account); then was sent with a Negress bootlegger to the prison at Marysville. There she lived with female murderers and thieves, found them kindly and conditions, on the whole, satisfactory. At the end of a month, the Governor pardoned her. She had dinner at the Executive Mansion and set out again-with $5 in her pocket...
...Grand Army of the Republic also opposes restoration of the Lee mansion at Arlington Heights by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, which desires to make the mansion a Confederate shrine...
...company unfolds a tale of horrid humors. It seems that the Gorilla was a monstrous criminal who advertised his criming and then fulfilled his promises. Murders and whatnot were his pastime. On this particular evening, he operates in the livingroom, the garage and the cellar of the Stevens mansion. A detailed report of the activity would sound very much like a 9-year-old child's explaining of the libretto of Boheme. Therefore, let it be recorded that guns are going off almost continually, nearly every member of the cast is kidnapped before the evening is over and that...
...fight also disturbed the peace of the national executive mansion, but for a different reason. The President wrote a letter to T. V. O'Connor, Chairman of the Shipping Board, who had voted for the Dollar sale. The letter asked officially for the names of members of the Shipping Board who had opposed the sale and for their reasons. It seemed that the President disliked the idea of Government servants going into court in support of a private concern against a Government decision. He was about to apply the axe, said some...
Merchant Jumel. They slapped their thighs in the Merchants' Exchange; they discussed it in a nervous whisper in the Tontine Coffee House. Merchant Stephen Jumel, the richest man in Manhattan in 1800, had installed one Eliza Bowen in his mansion on Whitehall Street, bought her a fine carriage in which she paraded, the huzzy, to the disgruntlement of other matrons who, though formally wedded, had no carriages. She was a bad one, this Eliza. At 19, she had given birth to a brat, insolently christened George Washington Bowen, who for many years startled all beholders by the striking resemblance...