Word: mansion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...house at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue looked deserted. The windows, shorn of their rich hangings, had a vacant look about them, and on the White House gates there were neat, white wooden signs: CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC. Inside the mansion, a sander went to work in the East Room, smoothing away pits and scars on the quartered-oak parquet floor. By week's end the floor was ready for filling and waxing. This week a crew of maintenance men will move in to fix the floors, touch up the paneling in the State Dining Room, and dry-clean the soiled...
Born in a mansion in Beverly Hills...
...Ireland's County Cavan, invited Vicki for a weekend on his estate, met her at the Dublin airport in a grey cutaway coat and topper with a bouquet of roses and shamrocks, and a coach and four. Vicki proceeded to stay the weekend in the 150-year-old mansion, whose highceilinged, chandeliered gloom has never been desecrated by electricity. "Did you do any hunting?" Vicki was asked. "No," she replied, "but I was photographed with a Black Angus calf...
Into the Foundation. Tucked away in a vast mansion in Paris were many of Gulbenkian's art treasures, ranging in taste and quality from the finest of Rembrandts to Paul Chabas' famed and wishy-washy September Morn. In his last years, even their owner seldom saw them. Separated from his wife, Gulbenkian lived alone with a staff of retainers in his suite in Lisbon's Hotel Aviz. His rooms were furnished as drearily as a business office, and Calouste Gulbenkian's only diversion in his decline was the manipulation of his great power. The chief beneficiary...
...time his grandson (Anheuser-Busch's current president) was born in 1899, Adolphus Busch was a legendary figure in St. Louis. At his 20-room brick mansion he lavishly entertained such guests as Sarah Bernhardt and Teddy Roosevelt; he bought homes in Pasadena, Calif. and Cooperstown, N.Y., bought himself a manor on Germany's Rhine, had himself painted by Sweden's Anders Zorn. Traveling to New York in his private car, he passed out gold coins on all sides. Adolphus Busch could afford it. When he died in 1913, he left his family an estate valued...