Word: brookes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...United States, Great Britain and Russia determined the basic structure of the then unborn United Nations Organization, was given to Harvard by the Honorable and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss. One of the largest Georgian estates in the District of Columbia, Dumbarton Oaks, built in 1800, possesses an orangery, a brook with miniature water falls, a yew walk, swimming pool, tennis courts and an old fashioned water wheel. The American Guide Series describes the house as having the "regal air of an 18th Century chateau...
...lineups: Lowell; le, Mack, P. Thomson; lt, Green; lg, Sporn, Marble; c, Brook, Post; rg, Richardson; rt, Silver; rc, Kaelber; backs, Wales, Briggs, Bowditch, Lyne, Smith, Allard...
...regiments of foot, gleaming in scarlet and gold. These were no mercenaries, like the Hessians beaten at Trenton; these were seasoned and loyal troops. From a striking force of perhaps 2,500 men, Washington detached a skeleton brigade led by General Hugh Mercer to destroy the bridge over Stony Brook. But it was too late. The British regulars shattered and scattered the raw American irregulars, gave Mercer a fatal wound. His panicked men infected Washington's main body...
Lowell: le, Mack, Post; lt, Green, Smith; lg, Frye, D. Thompson; c. Brook; re, Kaelber, P. Thompson; rg, Richardson, Lamoreaux; rt, Silver; backs, Briggs, Cutler, Rueter, Bowditch, Lyne, Lewis, Marble, Allard...
...Queen Elizabeth, out for a rural walk with George and the Princesses near Balmoral, crossed a brook in Glen Cairn, lost her footing and fell. Injuries: "Minor cuts & bruises" on the left leg. The doctor ordered rest for two or three days...