Word: mansions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...house" was the old Hearst Mansion--huge, beautiful and filled with smiling young people. What kind of family is this? I said to myself. Everyone was friendly, talkative, young and beautiful. We ate a great meal, sang some folk songs, and then someone announced that there would be a "lecture" to explain the principles that bind the family together. Again my mind was speeding--could this be a political group? Religious? Drug commune? No, no, I told myself, stop being so doubtful, keep an open mind...
...through the front door of Blair House, where Harry Truman was staying, came alarmingly close to success. Lyndon Johnson told and retold the story that during his own presidency a dozen or so men had scaled the 8-ft. White House fence and made their way up to the mansion before being apprehended...
This week, 186 years after John Adams was sworn into the job, the U.S. Vice President and his family will at last get an officially designated home of their own. It is Admiral's House, a three-story gabled and turreted white brick Victorian mansion of 33 rooms on Embassy row, 21/2 miles northwest of the White House. But the 82-year-old Admiral's House has proved to be something of a rusty boat since Congress captured it by Executive fiat from the Navy, which had used it since 1928 to quarter the families of the chiefs...
...Marble Mansion. By the time Europe's scholars had grudgingly accepted the Schliemanns' discovery, the two had repeated their feat of literary and archaelogical detection by finding a second trove of prehistoric gold artifacts in a series of ancient royal tombs. One of them was perhaps Agamemnon's burial site at Mycenae...
This is exciting stuff, but Stone fleshes it out with far too much flabby imagining about the Schliemanns' domestic tensions. Will Sophia produce a son for Henry? Will she endure his abundant eccentricities? Will she put up with the vast marble mansion he builds for himself in Athens...