Word: mansion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the war Al built a tile-roofed, Spanish-style mansion at the edge of the Hudson River palisades in New Jersey, built a loft. metal fence topped by barbed wire, installed lights and Doberman pinscher watchdogs, and settled down to the good life. He went to race tracks and took the sun in Florida and Hot Springs, Ark. This existence was interrupted in 1954 when the Government charged him with evading a paltry $12,000 in federal income taxes. Before the matter was settled two Government witnesses, an elderly couple, disappeared from their bloodstained Miami house...
Among those who sat with heads bowed were some of Orval Faubus' closest associates. The Governor himself was fooled up in the Executive Mansion with a cold -and his conscience...
While some U.S. cities spend millions rebuilding the past after it has been destroyed (as witness, Williamsburg, Va.), others heedlessly continue to destroy a rich heritage of irreplaceable architectural monuments. Case in point: the impending destruction of one of the finest Gothic Revival mansions in the U.S., designed in 1846, and maintained in near perfect condition as a period piece both inside and out until it was willed to the city of Bridgeport, Conn, last year by the late Industrialist Archer C. Wheeler. Because the mansion stands on what is now valuable downtown real estate, Bridgeport's Socialist Mayor...
Walnut Wood, a 17-room mansion built for Saddle Maker Henry K. Harral, was looked up to in its time as a work of art and the acme of taste. It boasts a tower without, twin parlors within. Elaborate valances edged with silk ball fringe hung at the lancet bay windows, framing Chauncey Ives's most famous statue, his marble semi-nude Pandora. The dining-room walls are paneled in fine, carved walnut. The ceiling of the great hallway is a Gothic arch of wood ribs with gilded bosses representing the heads of such men as Shakespeare, Socrates...
Four Geniuses & a Dolt. The book begins in epilogue with grey-eyed, whey-faced Edward Enger lying gravely ill on a bed in his mansion after a coronary attack. His wife is beside the bed and beside herself: "Oh my darling, my life, my blood, my hope...