Word: stuccoed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week's end came the annual change which has punctuated his life these 34 years past. At his home fronting on the park-a two-story stucco house with a lawn which the Senator diligently mows, with shrubs which he diligently clips- Mrs. Norris began wrapping the comfortable old-fashioned furniture in sheets, a handy man began nailing up the shutters. Only one thing was unusual. When the Norrises went to the railroad station and boarded a train on the Burlington, their tickets read not to Washington, D. C. but to Lincoln, Neb. George Norris was going this time...
Rosemary Hall in swank Greenwich, Conn, is a collection of Gothic-Roman- esque-Italianate buildings which are predominantly pink stucco chiefly because pink is a favorite color of Rosemary's breezy, strong-minded old Headmistress Caroline Ruutz-Rees (pronounced R'Treece). The "Boarders" and the "Day Boarders" wear wool or tweed uniforms in winter and gingham ones in spring tailored to Headmistress Ruutz-Rees's exact specifications. All regard her with a loyalty that makes Rosemary Hall notable among girls' schools not so much for its fashionableness and its stiff scholastic standards as for the fact...
...sodden drunk so Mother will know how it looks and will stop her drinking," said Jesse Lauriston Livermore Jr., 16, schoolboy son of the famed stock market trader, when he returned to his mother's home at Montecito, Calif., late Thanksgiving evening. In the big pink stucco house Mrs. Dorothea Livermore, who divorced Trader Livermore in 1932, was giving a drinking party. Son Jesse began downing a quart of whiskey. Screamed tipsy Mrs. Livermore: "I'd rather see you dead than drinking!" Son Jesse lurched into another room, returned with one of the guns he found there. Challenged...
...Party Next Door" the principal character is Anthony, a professor of Greek and Roman History, who has a wife named Mary, and a small house in a very nice real estate development. When Anthony and Mary come from their summer vacation they find a garish stucco house newly-erected on the lot next to theirs and the unfolding of Anthonys' late for its occupants begins with a noisy house-warming when Anthony summons the police to keep them quiet. The splondid psychological outlining of Anthony's defiant but helpless rage is contained in a piece of writing that makes...
...Japan all this mushroomed into such a boom as even the U. S. cannot remember. With thousands of overnight millionaires, a self-congratulatory middle-class with money and power was suddenly thrown among the feudal remnants of pre-War Japan. Its members invested in stucco villas and saxophones, art works and sex novels, phonographs, geisha girls and the best Scotch whiskey and earned the contemptuous nickname of nankin (chess pawns promoted by crossing the board). The fantasy lasted until 1923 when a 52 billion yen earthquake jolted Japan and proved a forerunner of Depression. Even today most moneyed Japanese...