And take in the gilded fantasies of turn-of-the-century America. From Wordnik.com. [Cradle and All]
It was a turn-of-the-century boathouse that finally stole my heart. From Wordnik.com. [Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas]
Most of the furniture was turn-of-the-century oak, practical, sturdy. From Wordnik.com. [The Empress File]
The building is a modern conversion of a redbrick turn-of-the-century warehouse. From Wordnik.com. [The Empress File]
This must be turn-of-the-century Flatbush in New York's Brooklyn, where they grew up. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Engelhardt: Borrowed Time: The World at 65] Reference
By the way, the term "suffragette" is an example of turn-of-the-century media "spin.". From Wordnik.com. [Ellen Snortland: Women's Equality Day -- Thank you President Jimmy Carter] Reference
So you've got this very, you know, turn-of-the-century French influence on this record. From Wordnik.com. [Aretha Franklin Like You've Never Heard Her] Reference
Will it be regarded as a classic or as a monstrous lapse of turn-of-the-century judgment?. From Wordnik.com. [David Finkle: Broadway Revivals Founder on Brighton Beach] Reference
Yet this architectural war zone was a playpen compared with turn-of-the-century Istanbul. From Wordnik.com. [All I Want For Christmas...] Reference
The rolling stock was shipped to the abandoned turn-of-the-century rail yard in Scranton. From Wordnik.com. [Park-Barrel Politics] Reference
If you look at the mural over there, Mrs. Kennedy wanted kind of a turn-of-the-century look. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 27, 2005] Reference
Beresford is a forgotten figure in the history of turn-of-the-century fantastical literature. From Wordnik.com. [The Fall] Reference
He made an offer to buy on his first visit to the three-story, turn-of-the-century carriage house. From Wordnik.com. [Cox Cable Family Welcomes Another to Sutton Place] Reference
Also up a turn-of-the-century creek: 62 products and 116 companies with "Millennium" in their titles. From Wordnik.com. [What's In A Name? Ask A Marketing Pro] Reference
What Caesar was to geography, it would seem, Winfrey is to turn-of-the-century middlebrow American culture. From Wordnik.com. [Bob Thompson: Obama's Oprah Problem] Reference
Since then, the building, with its sought-after turn-of-the-century details, has continued to be futzed with. From Wordnik.com. [N.Y.U. Gal Kay LeRoy Bags $2.9 M. Loft Blocks From Campus] Reference
Central American immigration recollects the turn-of-the-century immigration of the Irish and of European Jews. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons From Black History: Obama's First Year Is 'Back to the Future'] Reference
She suggested Alwyn Court, the turn-of-the-century building with the most intricate terra-cotta façade in the city. From Wordnik.com. [The Man in the Rockefeller Suit] Reference
This morning we met for a lovely early breakfast in Gramercy Park and discussed the old turn-of-the-century headlines. From Wordnik.com. [Maegan Carberry: Stars! Sex! Murder! Party Like It's 1909.] Reference
One scene would have re-created the infamous turn-of-the-century electrocution of Topsy the elephant, a Coney Island mainstay. From Wordnik.com. [Troy, Troy Again] Reference
The family's recombined apartment will have an oak-paneled living room and dining room and lots of other turn-of-the-century details. From Wordnik.com. [Fifth Avenue Co-op That Snubbed Oilman Welcomes Another] Reference
"It's a special turn-of-the-century farmhouse," said broker Ted Damiecki of Sothebys International Realty, who represented the seller. From Wordnik.com. [Skyscraper Collector Aby Rosen Gets Out of Homeowning] Reference
It's still there, a mixture of attractive turn-of-the-century and ugly 1970s buildings overlooking the approaches to Narragansett Bay. From Wordnik.com. [Sea Power] Reference
“She was quite round,” he says, “in a lovely, turn-of-the-century kind of round — that beautiful, Rubenesque kind of beauty.”. From Wordnik.com. [What Tina Fey Wants] Reference
ERIC WESTERVELT: Fourth-generation winemaker Katharina Prum sits in a stately living room in her family's turn-of-the-century manor house. From Wordnik.com. [Massive Bridge Project Divides German Winemakers] Reference
The National Library, a grand turn-of-the-century Hapsburg building with a towering atrium, is still standing-without floors, roof or windows. From Wordnik.com. [Waiting For Spring In Sarajevo] Reference
Overlooking a pond and Bruce Park, a mile south of downtown Greenwich, the turn-of-the-century 4,900-square-foot home on one acre has six bedrooms. From Wordnik.com. [Private Properties] Reference
But what if your tastes stray from the dignified Beaux-Arts mansion or the sundry turn-of-the-century townhouses scattered throughout the Gold Coast?. From Wordnik.com. [On Woody's Block] Reference
We know even less about the turn-of-the-century populists who challenged entrenched economic interests and fought for a “cooperative commonwealth.”. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Loeb: The Real Rosa Parks] Reference
For turn-of-the-century harness racers, the two-minute mile was as much a gold standard of greatness as the four-minute mile once was for human runners. From Wordnik.com. [The Racehorse That America Adored] Reference
The National Society of Film Critics on Saturday named "There Will Be Blood," a gritty tale about a turn-of-the-century oil man infected with greed, the. From Wordnik.com. [Greg Mitchell: When 'Mad Men' Types -- and Hollywood-- First Played a Key Role in Politics] Reference
Upton Sinclair's surreptitious reporting about conditions in turn-of-the-century Chicago slaughterhouses led to the creation of the Food and Drug Administration. From Wordnik.com. [The Media's Meaty Meal] Reference
As Susannah Finncannon, she tears apart the Ludlow brothers (Brad Pitt, Aidan Quinn and Henry Thomas) in the ripe turn-of-the-century epic "Legends of the Fall.". From Wordnik.com. [New Faces For The New Year] Reference
Andrew Sean Greer, the author of "The Confessions of Max Tivoli," a turn-of-the-century tale about a man who ages in reverse, feels a bit like a lonely ex-boyfriend. From Wordnik.com. [The Curious Case of Ben—No, Max Tivoli] Reference
Clinton has long fancied the TR comparison, amassing the best conservation record since Roosevelt and fashioning his Third Way after turn-of-the-century progressivism. From Wordnik.com. [A Strategy For The Wilderness] Reference
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