Word: overgrown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Death & Taxes. The Dunbar solicitors opened Sir Adrian's eyes to even more discouraging discoveries: two houses owned by the estate in England had been sold to meet death duties; most of the ?20,000 trust fund would have to go for the same cause. Only seven overgrown acres of the vast Scottish estate were still available for farming. Income and real-estate taxes would gobble up all but ?420 of the ?2,000 he would collect in rents from the rest of his holdings. With the mansion uninhabitable, the only shelter available to the new baronet...
...think it's filthy," declared famed Architect Frank Lloyd Wright,* 83, in the big city for a brief inspection tour. "It's 3 greatly overgrown village. It has phases unworthy of a great city-trucks mixed with taxicabs and private conveyances, the whole thing a melee, and then the garbage set out on the streets. Very village-like." Wright added that Alexander Weollcott had once defined New Yorkers as "Midwesterners with ulcers...
...have what everyone has who loses his hair over a long term period--Sibbores, or dry scalp." It didn't sound very imposing, but he went on building his case. "It's all caused by congestion underneath the follicle layer--he pointed to his overgrown follicle wood. Our treatments will clean out that congestion and revitalize your hair." He walked over to a fluoroscope device on one wall and pressed a button. A translucent projection of amass of blood vessels and a cross section of a solitary, but evidently from his description, healthy hair lit up one wall. Another switch...
...College presently enjoys the unique, though somewhat confusing position of being considered an overgrown Communist cell, and, simultaneously, a pesthole of Fascism...
Goaded by criticism, the distillery company's district manager, Stanley Barnett, rashly voiced his views to a Denver Post reporter: "Why," he cried, "should we do anything about it? Of course, if we'd known what kind of controversy it would start in this overgrown cow town we probably wouldn't have done it." Asked if he didn't think it disfigured the skyline, he asked: "What skyline have you got here?" He had hardly spoken before he was the center of a blizzard of protest...