Word: triplex
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the last paragraph of Æs Triplex, by Robert Louis Stevenson...
...News's city room when the Associated Press teletype clattered briefly, spewed forth a two-paragraph bulletin about the discovery of Patricia Lonergan's body. Customary Sunday evening doldrums vanished. Mention of a "nude body" and the murder weapons (candlesticks) was promising. But only when they saw "triplex apartment" and"Beekman Hill" did News staffers know they had something. The fastest-breaking crime staff in the U.S. swung into action...
Into her majority and with it some $3,900,000 came Brenda Diana Duff Frazier Kelly, onetime queen of the Manhattan glamor debs, now queen of a triplex apartment with Husband John ("Shipwreck") Kelly. Last week at least two of the newspapers that used to publicize all her doings in café society published the fact that her chief interest now, besides keeping house, is "having a family...
...later headed the Federal Trade Commission, in 1913 refused the Ambassadorship to Russia. Accepting the post 23 years later, he took with him his second wife, Mrs. Marjorie Post Close Hutton Davies, who inherited $20,000,000 from her father (Postum), was used to a 54-room triplex Manhattan apartment, owned a massive steam& -square-rigged yacht, Sea Cloud, which bugged the eyes of Leningrad. To be secure from hunger Ambassador and Mrs. Davies took with them 25 refrigerators containing 2,000 pints of frozen cream...