Word: stuccoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Roosevelt deeded his 113-year old stone & stucco Hyde Park home and 33 acres around it to the U.S. as a "national historic site." He will keep possession and pay taxes during his lifetime; it will not go to the nation until all of his immediate family have died. The President has already given the $350,000 Colonial Dutch Roosevelt Library and 16 adjoining acres to the U.S. Of the immediate Hyde Park grounds Roosevelt heirs will get only the 60 acres between the house and the Hudson...
...Town & Country told its readers that simply "everybody" came down before Christmas this year. Miami hotels, turned back to their owners by the Army, were booked solid all the way to the end of the winter season. There were as many ways to break rent ceilings as there are stucco villas on Biscayne Boulevard...
...evening of Dec. 2, some 30 German planes came low over the town, dropped their first bombs short among the white stucco buildings. Wide-eyed, white-faced men and women clawed at the ruins, and in the town's few shelters fearful crowds wailed: "Madonna, Madonna...
...paid $750 down and installed his attractive, Mexican-born wife and two small daughters in a $4,250 white-stucco house. The house is in Fullerton's restricted Sunnyside section of moderate-priced homes, one street removed from the slums where Alex Bernal was raised. The Bernals were quiet, clean, good neighbors. But they were also "non-Caucasian...
...Oakes got hopping mad at Canadian taxes, announced that he was moving to Nassau because it would tax him only 5%. There he built a glass & stucco mansion around a saltwater swimming pool. He bought the Bahamas' largest hotel and Nassau's water works, built a private airport, rebuilt the Bahamas Country Club, got himself elected to the Bahamas House of Assembly. For his contributions to St. George's Hospital in London, Oakes was made a baronet...