Word: mansion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...buxom blonde. The director seems confident that anything to do with a pet alligator in England is uproarious, and that the perfect ending for a film is a car filled by boy, girl, boy alligator, girl alligator, and nauseating love song, wafting along the long driveway of a gigantic mansion. It is embarrassing...
When the government made a halfhearted effort to arrest Saeb Salam, his private army of 100 bullyboys drove cops back from his sandbagged mansion. Near the Syrian border, where avengers knifed to death the five customs guards who seized De San's guns, a Chamoun-hating Druse tribal leader named Kamal Jumblatt took to the field with an army of 2,000. Cried Beirut's Al-Masa (it was a comment on Lebanese freedom that opposition newspapers appeared uncensored all week): "0 Chamoun, resign! O Shehab, take over...
...passages of Professor MacLeish's "Preliminary Statement of Purpose" for the Harvard Theatre, though very generally worded, raise uneasy questions about the degree of faculty control to be exercised in the new and more stately mansion. Even if Professor MacLeish's proposals for a permanent director and standing committee of the faculty to run the theatre are adopted, the new theatre should be run according to the same general policy as the present ones...
...mansion was profusely decorated, symmetrically, and the walled grounds surrounding it included an ornamental lake, a pagoda, a maze, and a rose garden. The house contained a 10,000 volume (leather-bound) library, and on every conspicuous surface through the building were carved helpful thoughts, such as "When Shall We Live...
...their number perceived, in an apparition of the first Mr. Halloran, that the end of the outside world was not far off. Humanity, as an experiment, had failed, and the gods who created it had decided that all on earth save the twelve denizens of the Halloran mansion should perish in a general cataclysm...