Word: mansions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subject for polite, Hays-worthy cinema treatment, Sam Houston presented able Screenwriter Wells Root and his collaborators with notable problems. Houston's career as Governor was terminated abruptly when, for reasons which have never been completely explained, he left his first wife and the Governor's mansion almost simultaneously, three months after his marriage. In this picture, Houston (Richard Dix) is deserted by his bride and resigns later to spare her unpleasant publicity. The years when he lived among the Cherokee Indians, who called him "Big Drunk," are glossed over in a few sequences showing...
...night last week 5,000 California students gathered on the campus, waved torches and placards, marched behind a band and cheer leaders to President Sproul's square old mansion: "We want Sproul!" they chanted. Soon, with his arms around his wife and his mother, President Sproul appeared on a second-floor balcony...
...pledge to provide 830 monthly pensions for Texas' needy old folks. Stony-faced sat the legislators as he began reading his message, which he had typed out sitting on an apple box in his dismantled house while the O'Daniel family moved into the Governor's mansion...
...James and Proust, whose craftsmanship and insight she more simply recalls, tall, shy, angular, 39-year-old Elizabeth Bowen belongs to the upper middle class which she skilfully anatomizes. The fashionable residence of her novel is modeled on her own Regent's Park house, a five-story Georgian mansion, where she lives with her husband, Alan Cameron, former Oxford don, now children's educational director for BBC. In this ritzy, rumbling house (the Underground passes directly underneath) The Death of the Heart three years ago got off to a slow start because Author Bowen spent most...
...despite Sassoon's mature glow, his idyll sets down a striking number of young Sassoon's unhappinesses. His parents' separation infected even the nursery with melancholy. His rich Aunt Rachel (the only Sassoon he remembers well), who lived in a gloomy mansion and was married to a paralytic (owner of the Sunday Times), went insane at her husband's funeral. Romantic Siegfried was alienated from his mechanically-minded brothers and schoolmates by his taste for poetry. At Marlborough he was bored. (His final report read: "No particular intelligence.") Cambridge, which he left in his second year...