Word: mantels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speedy converted Lockheed patrol bomber. His nonbusiness passion is horses; he is a scientific horse breeder and an excellent horseman. His rambling, two-story country home in Kirtland Hills, just outside Cleveland, is a horsy household dominated by murals, pictures and statues of horses. Above the living-room mantel is a lighted oil painting of George Humphrey on his own Richmond Boy. He spends most of his vacations on his 3,000-acre estate, "Milestone," near Thomasville, Ga.-usually riding and hunting...
...ground-floor apartment, jammed with books, hung with of crowded with knickknacks, including herds of carved elephants trekking over shelves and mantel, Cummings entertains his friends. He sits in a straight chair tilted against the wall. Crumpled bills, spilled coins, dropped when he returned from his walk, strew the table at his side. His eyes light up - he has decided to needle one of those present. His tongue is sharp and witty, and he talks fast, sometimes out of the side of his mouth, with a mimic's art and the insistence of a barker...
...Vandenberg of his $50 uniform cap, which he lost at a luncheon in Detroit in August. The general's hat was "unique and unmistakably identifiable and encrusted clear around with silver lightning." The "overzealous souvenir hunter . . . cannot brag about it to friends, nor hang it proudly over the mantel, nor wear it . . ." If the hat is returned, "the general is willing to forgive and forget with no questions asked...
...asked me, 'General, why are you so crazy to ever get into this kind of thing?' I had to find some answer that was quick because I was pretty busy in Europe. I got a picture of my three grandchildren and I put it on my mantel and I said, 'Look at that.' I want to talk about the future for a second in their terms. This is my particular philosophy. We have been talking about social gains for all our people in terms of, first, political issues, and secondly as of goals in themselves...
With a sure instinct, Juan Perón immediately turned the demonstration into anti-U.S. propaganda. After two days in jail, the offenders were brought into the office of Minister of Interior Angel Borlenghi, where they were told that, except for one Máximo Guillermo Mantel, they would all be freed through presidential mercy. A search of Mantel's house, said Borlenghi, had turned up a diary with an entry under July 4 which read: "Independence day of the United States. The most glorious of all days. Our big sister." Thundered Borlenghi: "This proves that this episode...