Word: villas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...better. After looking over the preparations of her new Paris town house and satisfying herself that all went well at Reid Hall-residence for U. S. female students-she took a train for Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat on the Riviera. There, at her daughter Lady Ward's Villa Rosemary, the cold grew worse. Bronchial complications set in; her heart became affected. Dr. Robert Louis Levy, chief of the cardiac department of New York's Presbyterian Medical Center, was summoned by plane from Paris, but oxygen and his skill were no match for pneumonia and an aged heart. When...
...James Hazen Hyde, wife of the founder of potent Equitable Life Assurance Society, bought the magnificently wooded Villa Serbelloni on the high promontory which cuts Lake Como, most famed Italian lake, into three branches. Villas on this site have passed through many hands, including those of Gaius Caecilius Pliny, King Theodoric of the Goths, King Liutprand of the Lombards, the Counts Sfondrati. Recently it has been an hotel...
...spite of his disease, in spite of one attempt to commit suicide. A bystander like his hero, he took no part in the Revolution but is in good odor with the Soviet Government. Plain Russian Communists like him (although he spends nine months a year at his Italian villa) and have bought over 2,000,000 copies of his books in the last four years. Speaking no English, he does not know the phrase "moral turpitude," but on his single visit to the U. S (in 1906) he met many a chilly shoulder because the lady he was seen with...
...morning last week at 9:50 a.m. exactly Her Imperial Majesty the Empress Nagako was clocked into the temporary structure erected for such occasions, the Imperial Maternity Villa...
Provincetown player, U. S. correspondent with Pancho Villa, Wartime pacifist (expelled from the Harvard Club of New York in 1918), appointed first Soviet Consul in New York City?appointed by Trotsky, rejected by the U. S. State Department...