Word: stuccos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George Norris was 83 when he lay down for the last time in the front bedroom of the big, stucco house on Main Avenue. One morning last week he was stricken with a cerebral hemorrhage. For a day he was conscious of the August sun on the hackberry trees and lilac bushes which he had planted. Then more fever came, and coma, and his old heart stopped...
Franklin Roosevelt went immediately to the palatial, showplace home of the late Christian R. Holmes, on famed Waikiki Beach. The highway to the house was blocked to traffic, surrounded with barbed wire and guarded by platoons of marines. At the cream stucco mansion, until recently a rest house for Navy aviators, the President had a spacious, 50-foot bedroom ; the bathroom of Presidential aide Sam Rosenman had a sunken tile tub big enough to swim in. The Commander in Chief set up military headquarters on a sundeck overlooking Waikiki's long, rolling surf...
...stucco-and-stone mansion, built with Quint profits near Callander, he will live with the healthy, chubby, stolid Quints, Mama Elzire, the less famed Dionnes-Ernest (19), Rose (17), Thérèse (15), Daniel (13), Pauline (11), Oliva Jr. (8), Victor...
High above the river the big stone-and-stucco mansion house stood in its park, dignified, comfortable, a little shabby. Trees, paths, lawns and gardens, groomed carefully by five generations of gardeners, looked dull now in the winter tag-end. But inside the spacious mansion at Hyde Park there was warmth and gayety, perhaps in the flowered cretonne drawing-room-where afternoon coffee is a daily ritual...
From the simple, concrete-and-stucco Bank of China headquarters in Chungking came rumblings last week of a major political upheaval. While grey-gowned clerks delicately fingered their abacuses in the cold, smoky counting rooms, directors of the bank reclined in rattan chairs, sipped tea, and ousted their fiery chairman, brilliantly able Dr. T. V. Soong. Successor: his politically potent brother-in-law, Dr. H. H. Kung...