Word: mansion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pulled fire hoses from their racks, adorned the sculpt head of Civil War Hero John Gordon with an ashcan. A dozen effigies of Governor Marvin Griffin were hanged and burned during the students' march, which culminated in a 2 a.m. riot in front of the governor's mansion...
...Here indeed is a great pianist, probably the world's greatest. His piano always sings at his touch. Mr. Gilels comes here not as a Soviet representative but as an artist ... as a symbol of the world's artistic unity." Thanksgiving morning was purely routine in the mansion of Washington's Hostess-with the-Mostes' Perle Mesta, until her curious houseboy spotted a strange pushbutton in the kitchen, touched it. Soon, in answer to the robbery alarm, Perle, unprepared for an impromptu party, was visited by a horde of uninvited guests-six uniformed cops, two detectives...
...locomotive is Joan Crawford, a siren from Chicago, and what she does to the proud sons and daughters of the Old South is a caution. Pathetic Fay Wray loses her mind when she loses her man to Joan. The luckless man (Barry Sullivan) retires to his room in the mansion house to nurse his bottle and his grudge. His wide-eyed sister, Betsy Palmer, goes out to the stable and hangs herself. Finally. John Ireland, after quivering with rage and lust for 95 minutes, brings things to a happy conclusion by burning himself and Joan alive. Based on a novel...
...Alta Cossart Lawson, a ferocious doyenne of Vincentown, N.J., returns now and then-they say-to stalk up and down -in front of the ruin of her mansion, in extirpation of the night she forced her drunken, demented son to lop off the head of his meek little wife with an ax. ¶ Lettitia Dalton, the vain and vicious wife of a rich Virginia planter, was quite a dame. One night she sent her sister Caro to an old greenhouse on her York River plantation to get some grapes. Poor Caro fell into a trap, died horribly in a shower...
...month after she accidentally shot and killed her husband, millionaire Sportsman William Woodward Jr., in their Long Island mansion (TIME, Nov. 7), Ann Eden Crowell Woodward, 39, recovering from shock and a virus infection, was slated for release from a Manhattan hospital this week...