Word: mizner
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With a stick in the wet Florida sand, Architect Addison Mizner once drew the outlines of Spanish mansions, clients gave approval on the spot, and construction crews were soon at work on such Palm Beach palaces as Playa Riente, home of Oklahoma Oil King Joshua Cosden, and El Mirasol, where Mrs. E. T. Stotesbury ruled vacationing society. Meanwhile, Addison's brother Wilson and Super-Publicist Harry Reichenbach fleshed out the Mizner principality by adhering to a golden Reichenbach rule: "Get the big snobs and the little snobs will follow...
Last week, 35 years later, many of the great Mizner Alhambras including Playa Riente and El Mirasol had been razed to make room for an expanding society, but Palm Beach was still living by the golden rule, with some notable alloys...
Meanwhile, in the now ancient Mizner villas behind the Poinsettia Curtain, the Old Guard was mumbling bravely into the Minton: "Palm Beach absorbs these people; they cause hardly a ripple...
...railroad that eventually reached Key West. It is also different from the '20s, when fun-seeking tycoons went south in private railroad cars with a staff of servants for the servants, and fell over each other to buy medieval houses and fake antique furniture from Addison Mizner. Gone are the hordes of "developers" who boomed land prices as high as $17,000 per frontage foot with dreams of billion-dollar cities, although they sometimes could not even afford the paper to plan them...
...executor of estates and guardian of minors. Yet he was a gambler. He gambled at cards and on horses; his project to drain the Dismal Swamp (it is only partly drained to this day) was in a line of wild American land speculation that did not end with Addison Mizner at Boca Raton. Washington gambled at war: with his neck, when he took up arms against the king, and with his army, in bold flashes that interrupted months of the utmost military caution. Despite, or perhaps because of Washington's conservative reverence for God, church and tradition, he turned...