Word: mansion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Togliatti summoned Giolitti to Rome for disciplining. But. his starry eyes opened at last. Antonio Giolitti stuck to his grandfather's mansion and chose liberty. Unable to change the party, he left...
...Assistant. Serene as a smogless moment in the city, Buffie and Norman start their day with a swim in the Chandler pool behind the square, concrete-block family mansion in the Hancock Park section of town. By 8:30 a.m. Norman rolls out his black Mercedes 300, heads off to the Times building five miles away, where he imperturbably juggles the deskload of problems that reach out from all his financial and civic connections...
...with Shakespeare. In House Party, four men and four women meet and mate. This puts Author Rowans on a par with Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, apart from which House Party resembles A Comedy of Errors. To the antediluvian Ames mansion at Pruitt's Landing, an "unspoiled" Long Island town, repairs the following partial cast of characters, some Ameses and some not: a superannuated dandy who is chauffeured about in a Hotchkiss landaulet; a Manhattan model; a frustrated young architect who works for Vahan Rabadab Associates ("All Rabadab buildings looked like banks of file cabinets with the drawers...
...perhaps because of) the quality of his collection, Gulbenkian could never find what he considered a suitable home for it. At one time or other, he owned half a dozen town and country places, including a huge London house, a 150-acre estate near Deauville and a vast Paris mansion. But he was rarely in any of his houses, knocked about instead from one plush hotel to another, seemed incapable of settling on a permanent place to hang his hat-or pictures...
...attributed to the Victorian architectural era (1837-76), says Maass, were committed when the U.S. began to copy older forms of architecture rather than following the Victorian principle of developing a style with only inspiration from abroad. Among the best examples of real Victorian, Maass cites the famed Carson Mansion at Eureka, Calif...