Word: manor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...constantly to prove himself. It was only natural, therefore, that when he decided to establish a private residence just outside London, it should be the most sumptuous one in the land. In 1514, he picked a site a few miles down the Thames from London. There stood a small manor belonging to the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem. In time, the manor became the great palace of Hampton Court...
...chilly evening last week, while visitors in evening dress strolled the lawns of his 135-acre estate, an old gentleman in tennis shoes sat in his 700-year-old manor house and reminisced. "Once I began to inherit family properties," he said, "it was really my job to build a better world. And besides, I always had so much sympathy for poor little Mozart...
...been no disadvantage, of course, that his grandfather was a baron, or that Wilson himself attended Eton and Oxford. "He knows every picture in every manor in England," says one London dealer. One of his first jobs after leaving Oxford-"A terribly humble job," he says, "a hopeless kind of job"-was as a general rewrite man and assistant circulation manager for the art magazine Connoisseur. But after a year of drudgery, Wilson felt he had learned enough about antiques to brazen it out at Sotheby's. For his first auction in 1938, he practiced all weekend by "auctioning...
...could be expected. The Mousetrap is a moderately awful play, not really in the same class with Christie's Witness for the Prosecution. Marooning its characters in an ancient manor house in a snowstorm, it festoons them with such stupendous lines as "By the time the snow has melted, a lot of things may have happened" and "There are six of you listening to me now -one of you is the killer...
...taxes. Soon Amantha (Yvonne De Carlo in the movie) is trembling on the block at a slave auction. A lounging lecher decides to examine the goods, when whack!-a silver-headed cane smashes his wrist. The hero (Clark Gable) pays $2,000, and takes Amantha off to his manor house...