Word: fiefs
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...cannot be found in the gazetteer (those who confuse it with Thomas Jefferson's home will be very confused indeed), but it can be visited five days a week at 4:30 p.m. E.S.T. on CBS. The network and the ad agency of Benton & Bowles, which hold joint fief over Monticello's doom-prone citizens, regard it with loyal affection: it is the mythical locale of TV's most merciless soap opera. The Edge of Night, the greatest hypnotic to appear since the video tube nudged the U.S. housewife away from radio's Stella Dallas...
...York Socialite Robert David Lion Gardiner became the 16th, and seemingly the last, lord of the manor of Gardiner's Island. The seven-mile eastern Long Island isleta Gardiner fief since 1639 and perhaps the only English royal grant in the U.S. still owned by its original family-would fall to Yale University if there were no Gardiner heirs...
...customarily passed down from father to son. Except in the Carpenters' union. From the time he was a schoolboy, Maurice Hutcheson was groomed as carefully as any prince to take over the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, which had long been the personal fief of his father, the late William ("Big Bill") Hutcheson. On his retirement in 1952, after 36 years as the dictator of the brotherhood, Big Bill simply turned the union over...
...Random House President Cerf: in the neighborhood of 135,000 shares of Random House stock, worth roughly $3,000,000. Knopf and his wife Blanche, an aloof, astringent woman who is the firm's president (her husband is chairman), will still run their publishing house as an independent fief under the Random suzerainty, and their books will retain the familiar Borzoi escutcheon...
...Which his great-granduncle Leopold II held as a personal fief rather than a colony...