Word: villas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...citizen who had the most to do with getting them home was an adventuresome San Francisco capitalist named Frederick B. Thompson, brother of Novelist Kathleen Norris. In his remarkable past he has played around with such varied characters as Jack London and Mexico's Rebel Pancho Villa. He had long since retired with a comfortable fortune and stomach ulcers when, in 1937, his young son David and his young nephew Jimmy Benét (son of Poet William Rose Benét) went to fight in Spain. Word that David had been wounded took Frederick Thompson posthaste to Madrid...
Greville had several love affairs and one illegitimate child, but compared with Pepys, Bachelor Greville was a veritable monk. It is easy to see why his love affairs were few and brief. After keeping a beautiful, well-mannered mistress at Lord Wharncliffe's villa for seven weeks ("Henry de Roos, who is the grand purveyor of women to all his friends, gave her to me"), 35-year-old Greville bitterly philosophizes that on account of her he has read no more than a dozen heavy volumes, doubts "if ever I shall take one to live with me again...
...Because this list was prepared before the season opened some of this information may be inaccurate. The CRIMSON therefore takes no responsibility for its correctness.), Hill WindsPlymouth Plymouth Inn Plymouth Four Winds Plymouth Presidential Inn Conway Eastern Slope Inn North Conway Russell's Kearsarge Headlands Intervale Fosscroft Intervale Maple Villa Intervale Howard House Bartlett Eagle Mountain House Jackson Overlook Jackson Whitney's Jackson Hawthorne Jackson Thor Lodge Jackson Pinkham Notch Camp Gorham Glon House Gorham Mount Madison House Gorham Philbrooks' Sheldon Laconia Tavern Laconia Batch's Barn Gullford The Barracks Gullford Alberg Inn Gullford Waterville Inn Waterville Valley Shattuck...
...recent years, however, Carol has settled down to his job as king in a manner calculated to please his distant cousins at London. Although when in Bucharest Mme Lupescu lives in a villa convenient to the royal palace, King Carol has made himself salesman for Rumania in the best British Empire tradition, dissolved the Rumanian Iron Guards (Nazis), booted out a premier who was too antiSemitic. All this has made him a little more acceptable to the British royal family. Last week Carol's first official call was on Queen Mother Mary at Maryborough House, where he presented gifts...
...official gentlemen suggested that a lady of Miss Moog's attraction might well open "a villa in Washington" with German money. There she would explain Naziism to Congressmen, military and naval officers, newspapermen. Although she and Dr. Griebl did nothing and heard nothing more about it, they continued to visit Berlin night spots and absorb champagne at the German Government's expense. Miss Moog's prolonged account of this so vexed long-legged Judge Knox that he finally slapped the bench, barked: "Stop that...