Albert married Millie E. Benton in 1873. The Overmans lived in a mansion in Springfield, Massachusetts, three miles from his factories. They were known for entertaining lavishly. Overman died July 30, 1930, in Westmoreland, New Hampshire, of a cerebral hemorrhage.
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Perry & Pleshakov, The Flight of the Romanovs, p. 264 To have cash flow and maintain his standard of living, Andrei sold the jewel collection that he inherited from his mother, and he mortgaged Villa Alam.Perry & Pleshakov, The Flight of the Romanovs, p. 262 For the next years, they settled there, entertaining lavishly and living in style.
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Mr. Dole lived there with his wife Julia, his mother- in-law, Mrs. Harriet Coffin, his two daughters, Mary Florence, Harriet (Hattie), and son, Sydney. Dole maintained the estate for over 30 years, entertaining lavishly. As an example, for his daughter's wedding in 1883 he built a spur line from the Chicago and Northwestern railway tracks almost to his doorstep.
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Sangster enjoyed a lively social life, entertaining lavishly in his box at Royal Ascot. Barry Hills, who trained more than 30 Group-race winners for Sangster, said, "We celebrated when we won, and usually celebrated when we lost".Masters, Rodney. "Robert Sangster 1936-2004: Hills: we celebrated when we won - and when we lost", The Racing Post, 9 April 2004. Retrieved 2012-10-24.
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The last 20 years of his life were largely uneventful. He and Hope were opening night regulars on Broadway; she especially was a magnet for press attention.New York Post, February 14, 1946; New York Sun, May 16, 1946. Giving up acting and singing by the early-1940s, Hope devoted herself to the high-life –– entertaining lavishly, dressing extravagantly and delighting in being dubbed "Duchess of Park Avenue" in the society columns.
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Meanwhile, Gabriel, who had been living in the Pavlovsk Palace, received a large three-room apartment at the Marble Palace on the second floor looking on the Palace Banks. After the death of his father in 1915, Gabriel was increasingly involved with his mistress. They were a hospitable couple and kept an open house entertaining lavishly for their friends. Gabriel was devotedly in love, but he could not marry his mistress because the Romanov's family status forbade any morganatic union.
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William L. Langer, European alliances and alignments, 1871-1890 (1950) p 355. Ismail launched vast schemes of internal reform on the scale of his grandfather, remodeling the customs system and the post office, stimulating commercial progress, creating a sugar industry, building the cotton industry, building palaces, entertaining lavishly, and maintaining an opera and a theatre. Over one hundred thousand Europeans came to work in Cairo, where he facilitated building an entire new quarter of the city on its western edge modeled on Paris.
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When that parliament dissolved in 1802, he fled to France. Later, he returned, and was member of Parliament for Barnstaple from 1806 to 1812 while continuing his association with the theatre. Taylor paid little of the agreed receipts to performers, or composers, and lived for much of his period of management in the King's Bench, a debtors' prison in Southwark.England's Mistress: The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton Kate Williams (Hutchinson, 2006) Here he maintained an apartment next to Lady Hamilton and lived in some luxury, entertaining lavishly.
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