Word: mansion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Half Impresario, Half Human. With that kind of change, Terrell loafs through the off season in an 18-room, 220-year-old mansion five miles from Lambertville, cruises about in a 1940 Rolls-Royce. Once the tents go up, Terrell haunts tryouts in blue jeans and Texas hat, exhausts a 250-man staff. "Half the time he's the impresario," says a friend. "The rest of the time he's human...
Sacred Mission. The central fact of Demara's life, according to Biographer Crichton, may be that he is a status sucker. He was eleven years old when his father, who owned movie houses in Lawrence, Mass., abruptly went broke. Kicked out of their mansion on Jackson Street, the Demaras landed in a shabby old carriage house on the wrong side of the gloomy old mill town. Fred hated poverty, with its stiff work boots and corduroy knickers, and he refused to face it. Every chance he got he sneaked back to the old house, sat in the attic...
...paid the police chief anything, but admitted that he hires off-duty Miami cops and pays them a total of $1,025 monthly. He needs the cops for protection against homicidal enemies and to bear witness that he is not doing anything illegal in his $300,000 Miami Beach mansion, said...
...never seen. As the fortunes of the South decline, John Bottomley whips his jaded horse into a final gallop that gets him back to Pompey's Head for a last big scene in which he accepts a dying Negro as his illegitimate half-uncle and watches the family mansion burn to the ground, consuming Villain Monckton in the process. Penniless, but at last united in wedlock. John and Arabella are prepared to face together the perils of Reconstruction-just as soon as Author Basso gets around to writing the third novel of his planned trilogy about Pomoey...
...Castro supporters deplore his confiscating land decrees, the conduct of some of his men and the course of his government. Castro soldiers careen about the city in Jeeps with guns in their belts and girls at their sides. Armed Forces Chief Raul Castro is living in a $220,000 mansion confiscated from a crony of Batista...