Word: mansions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lucky as to have automobiles. A trainload of war-wounded, had to wait hours every few miles while its crew repaired blown up rails. The diplomatic exodus came to rest at Sniatyn, a town near the Rumanian border where there were boarding school dormitories. Ambassador Biddle got a fine "mansion" on the main street. There were no lights, of course, and no running water, but his wife and family were safe. His British neighbors across the way marveled to see him sweating, stripping to his undershirt, as he loaded baggage into his official car, which was taking his girl clerks...
...good trading position as Mississippi's Favorite Son, for now Bilbo and Johnson will have first say in naming Mississippi's 18 delegates. And "The Man," long-standing Third Termite for Franklin Roosevelt, could lounge happily on the green satin chairs of his lonesome 25-room mansion near Poplarville, Miss...
...spectators who saw neither My Man Godfrey nor any of the variants of it since mimeographed in Hollywood, Fifth Avenue Girl may well seem one of the best pictures of the year. Good shot: Mrs. Borden, an apron over her sequins, wooing her husband by industriously scenting the Borden mansion with a succulent pot of Irish stew...
...celebrate the fourth birthday of Millionheir* William Astor, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Jacob Astor III, invited his playmates to a party on the lawn of Chetwode, pillared Astor mansion at Newport...
...Angela Kaufman, divorced wife of the late President Joseph Kaufman of American Razor Co., had acquired The Castle, onetime home of the late Ambassador to Italy Richard Washburn Child, had turned the stone mansion into an inn. Mrs. Kaufman applied for a liquor license. Her neighbors, among them socialites and Newport's mayor, filed objections, as the law allowed...