Word: marlis
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...rest of the country slid into the Depression, Marjorie prospered as the Post hostess with the mostest. Her estates became the playground for the surviving American moneyed, from the Phippses and Vanderbilts to the Kennedys and Dodges. Winters were spent at Mar-A-Lago, a 115-room, $7,000,000 residence in Palm Beach, Fla. Decorated with Italian stone, tiles made in 15th century Spain, and tapestries from the palace of the Venetian Doge, the crescent-shaped, turreted mansion and its estate boasted a nine-hole golf course, 10,000 potted plants, and well placed sand that enabled the family...
...same day the body of Allende was trucked to a military airport near Santiago and put aboard a plane bound for the city of Vina del Mar, where the President's family maintained a crypt. Mrs. Allende was allowed to accompany the corpse, as were his sister Laura, two nephews and an aide...
...marketing, of all things, TV sets in Japan, and embarrassed Sony executives had no choice but to comply. So, while Americans continue to buy great numbers of Sony and other Japanese TV sets, Motorola is about to give Sony some com petition in the Japanese mar ket for large-screen color...
Grandmother De specializes in winding her 15 clocks and never let ting Egan's mother forget that she mar ried beneath herself. The truth is that outside the hermetic DeWhit family, Egan Fletcher Sr. is a famous professional baseball player. He plays some unspecified position with a club known as the Washington Teutonians, but he is also an overpowering utility father figure. Returning for a stay with his family, he reignites his wife's banked passions and her family's recriminations. Grandfather dies, Egan's sister runs off with the first boy to find...
...rain failed to mar a procession of University officers, alumni, and members of the Class of '73 around Harvard Yard into the Tercentenary Theater. However, the parade had a fitful start as the Classes of '93 to '22 began their trek early leaving Presidents Bok and Horner, the Overseers and guests of honor scrambling to catch...