Just six weeks after Dandy Brandon's arrival at the mansion, the little surgeon and his svelte young wife gave their annual open house and ball, to which only New Orleans' oldest and wealthiest families were invited.

For the occasion on which everyone already knows everyone else and the host wishes them to meet one or a few honored newcomers, then the `` open house '' system is advantageous because the honored guests are fixed connective points and the drifting guests make and break connections at the door.

at any rate, heat grew so intense in the main part of the house that it melted the window panes, and fused the K'ang-si pottery to cinders.

Wright set his loss at $200,000, a figure perhaps justified by the unique character of the house that had been ruined, and the faultless taste that had gone into the selection of the prints and other things that were destroyed.

She was certain now that it would be no harder to bear her child here in such pleasant surroundings than at home in the big white house in Haverhill.

and General the Count Pallavicini, founder of the Austrian branch of that celebrated Italian house, a courtier Littlepage could have met at Madrid in December, 1780.

We see at once what Victor Hugo means when he calls Macbeth a northern scion of the house of Atreus.

The corporation entertained him for dinner at Quiney's house in 1596/7, with wine and sugar sent by the bailiff, Sturley.

Victor's book on John Lloyd Stephens was largely written in my study in the house at Weston.

This friend of many years came once to visit us in the house at Weston.

The only response we can think of is the humble one that at least we aren't playing the marimba with our shoes in the United Nations, but perhaps the heavy domes in the house of delegates can improve on this feeble effort.

Once, sitting at the front window in his parents' room, he saw Kate come out of her house.

Pat took Eileen and me out to dinner at a swell steak house and told us with tears in his eyes how happy he was we had come together again.

Her house stood on a rise of ground, and before she got into her car she looked at the houses below.

`` Well '', he began, `` It seems like some people in Paris want to hear more from me than those fellers over at the conference house do.

Suppose at this very moment her father was calling my house in an effort to cancel the plans??

All dressing ( undressing to be more exact ) must be done in our small bath house or at the swimmers' homes.

It was all set up so there would be no dust anywhere and so that their children would color in the coloring room, paint in the painting room, play with blocks in the block house, and do all the other things in the proper rooms at exactly the right time.

He at once cancels the celebrations and, buckling on his scimitar, stumbles blindly from the house, where he is hit and killed by a passing oxcart.

Just before leaving the arroyo where he was partially concealed, he did hear shots down at the house.

In 1918 the New England Telephone Company began erecting a building to house its operations on the corner of U. S. Rte. 7 and what is now Memorial Avenue at Manchester Center.

Giffen extracted one concession from William: the house servants could be free at any time Gorham thought expedient.

If he took an earlier streetcar than the 11:20 on his return, he could have arrived at the Borden house shortly after Mr. Borden came home.

He said he had promised Mrs. Borden to return in time for dinner and that was close to the time when he did turn up at the Borden house.

Everyone somehow manages to overlook completely the fact that, as far as we know, there were exactly two people in and about the house at the time of both murders: Lizzie Borden and Bridget Sullivan.

After Goryeo Dynasty ( 918 – 1392 ) signed peace treaty with the Mongol Empire in the 13th century, Mongolian princesses who married into Korean royal house brought with them Mongolian fashion which began to prevail in both formal and private life.

Victorian house in AlamedaDue to its proximity to the Bay, wind surfers and kite surfers can often be seen at Robert W. Crown Memorial State Beach.

Young George H. W. Bush taking his first steps at his grandfather's house in Kennebunkport, Maine | Kennebunkport, Maine, c. 1925

Several factors figure into the decline: one is the fact that the average family nowadays consists of fewer people, so fewer people live in each house ; second, the town is virtually unable to expand because all the surrounding lands were sold to the Gooisch Natuurreservaat by city architect W. M.

When they arrived in Los Angeles, California, they were befriended by local settlement house director Dana W. Bartlett ) and some other parts of the West Coast and Canada.

Milam and Colonel Frank W. Johnson led two columns of men into the city, and for the next few days they fought their way from house to house towards the fortified plazas where the Mexican soldiers waited.

In March 1779, Banks married Dorothea Hugessen, daughter of W. W. Hugessen, and settled in a large house at 32 Soho Square ( now comprising British offices for 20th Century Fox ).

The Sandburg house at 331 W. York Street, Elmhurst was demolished and the site is now a parking lot.

* The Hacienda ( Milpitas Ranchhouse )-the nearby Mission Revival Style guest-ranch house hotel built in 1930 by W. R. Hearst.

A system that only uses a 30 W fan to more-evenly distribute 10 kW of solar heat through an entire house would have a COP of 300.

hiding at the house of C. W.

The Major falls off the roof of the house after being chased by Louis ; Harry is killed by One-Round, who thinks Harry has killed Mrs. W after having a change of heart ; One-Round tries to shoot Louis and Marcus when he overhears a plan to double-cross him, but leaves the gun's safety catch on and is himself killed by Louis ; Marcus kills Louis by dislodging his ladder under the tunnel behind the house, causing Louis to fall into a passing railway wagon.

The cost of the case, together with huge debts from building his residence (" The White House " in Tite Street, Chelsea, designed with E. W. Godwin, 1877 – 8 ), bankrupted him by May 1879, resulting in an auction of his work, collections, and house.

Piglet lives in a " very grand house in the middle of a beech tree " in the Hundred Acre Wood, next to a sign which says " TRESPASSERS W ".

( The house site is now Big Chimneys Park, on W. Annandale Rd.

* Admiral Chester W. Nimitz was born in a house that still stands on Main Street in Fredericksburg.

James Austin, George McGahan and James W. Smith were appointed by the Governor as a county court, and their first meeting, held February 25, 1822, was at the house of Jesse Murphy, where they appointed John D. Peers as county clerk.

Two years later, Zukor bought an additional five hundred acres, built a night house, guest house, movie theater, locker room, greenhouses, garages, staff quarters and hired famed golf architect A. W.

W. R. Tuten house, before second story was built

The house was planned and designed by W. A.

Mrs. Carter died at the home in 1910 and left the house and grove to her eldest son William W. Carter, who died in 1960.

In 1928 Ernest Hemingway and his pregnant wife, Pauline, stayed at the house of W. Malcolm and Ruth Lowry at 6435 Indian Lane.