Word: rapidan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lived well. He bought a Virginia estate in Culpeper County at an auction, without even warning his wife, who like his mother was a Richmond belle. She could hardly have objected when she saw the lovely Greekporticoed house on a hill, and the 650 acres that overlook the Rapidan River. There Stettinius, as a "gentleman farmer," still keeps blooded Guernseys, and sells 1,500 turkeys a year. Amid the lindens and old magnolias of "The Horse Shoe," he rides horseback and romps with his Dalmatian. Pepper (one of whose pups is owned by his friend George Catlett Marshall...
...Rain was a popular tune. The average price of a radio set was $135. Disney's first Silly Symphony was just out (Allen does not name it; it was The Skeleton Dance}. President Herbert Clark Hoover returned from the weekend at his camp on the Rapidan. City people descending in the evening to the little, barred window of their favorite speakeasy were aware of the appointment of the Wickersham Commission to study how to enforce the unenforceable...