The Apartment where Ike lived
[Since no military quarers were available for Ike and Mamie, they took an apartment in the Wyoming, a gracious dowager from Washington's belle epoque at the corner of Conneticut Avenue and Columbia.]
Question: 1) Is the apartment in Wyoming or Washington?
2)What does the " gracious dowager from Washington's belle epoque" mean, I understand the 'dowager' is a wife of dead duke and the 'belle epoque' is a kind of beautiful era?
Top answer
1. , the nation's capital. 2.
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- , the nation's capital.
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- 's grand era.
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1. "The Wyoming" is apparently a fine old hotel at the corner of Connecticut Avenue and Columbia Street, in Washington D.C., the nation's capital.
2. The elegant old hotel is, figuratively, "a gracious dowager" from Washington D.C.'s grand era.
0The apartment building is named 'The Wyoming'. It is in Washington.
A dowager also means a gracious and elderly woman.
The writer means that the building is a gracious and elderly relic of a beautiful era.
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