Word: mansions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cook County Probate bench in 1914. There his work put him in touch with many of Chicago's most influential families, who came to esteem him as highly as he was held among his fellow Jews. In 1932 the Roosevelt boom put him in the Governor's mansion at Springfield. But stocky Governor Horner did not find his task easy. Strictly a good-government man, he supported an Honest Elections Bill which was opposed by old Boss Patrick A. Nash's Democratic machine, vetoed another measure which would have empowered Chicago's Mayor Edward J. Kelly...
...Kansas City, Mo. last week one of the oldest working educators in the U. S. cast a pair of undimmed eyes over a vast stone mansion, a remodeled greenhouse, two new French Renaissance buildings. Together with 38 teachers, 535 students, these edifices constituted a university no smaller than the Princeton at which big J. (for John) Duncan Ernst Spaeth had arrived 31 years before. Now Princeton's longtime English professor, still as shaggy and vital as an airedale, J. Duncan Spaeth had traveled 1,000 miles westward to dedicate a library, his first official act as president-elect...
...screen-tested, hired by Warner Bros. At 21, she was already a star in her own right when she played, in The Sea Beast with John Barrymore. After one more picture together. When a Man Loves, they were married. Dolores went to live in the Barrymore mansion, Bella Vista, on a bleak crest over Beverly Hills, taking her place among the Barrymore trophies of field & stream, the Barrymore whimsicalities and the Barrymore dinosaur egg obtained from Roy Chapman Andrews. She laughed at her husband's epigrams, tolerated his sycophants, condoned his escapades, bore him Dolores (5), John...
Though the great Stanislavski now nurses ill health behind the calcimined walls of a bourgeois mansion, his Moscow Art Theatre, with the famed sea gull from Chekhov's play on its curtain, remains "a spot sacred and awesome to the man of the theatre. . . . The audience seems to talk in lower tones here; their hair is combed more carefully. Their shirts are cleaner than in other theatres." The Days of the Tnrbins provided Observer Houghton's first impression. The play was an extremely sympathetic treatment of a White family during the horrors of the 1917-22 civil...
Background of the pepper case was as dizzy as any U. S. dance of corporate dummies. Between Garabed Bishirgian's barren birthplace and his swank mansion in London's Park Lane lay a speculative trail that included caviar, tin and Turk ish rugs. By reputation his "only god was a rising share," though on week ends he was devoted to his 600 pigs on his model farm in Surrey. His lavish stag parties were the talk of the City...