Word: manor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time for us all to work together to get a Harvard stamp. If we don't do it now, Lesley College and Pine Manor will have a stamp before we do," he added...
Fade out, Voice over: "What will happen to Bechtel? Will he fall for the evils ploy? Will the Chief be forced to carry out the diplomacy himself? Tune in next week when 'Millionaire Bruce Wayne' offers 'Stately Wayne Manor' to the chief. The chief turns his attention to this more important matter...
...week, Nipon blamed the discrepancy largely on "the disallowance of expenditures for improvements, furnishings and renovations to my home, which were paid for by the company." Nipon and his wife Pearl, who heads the dress company's design team, live in Gladwyne, outside Philadelphia, in a Norman-style manor on a sumptuous 6.8-acre estate that he bought...
...melancholy fog shrouded the moors the night Lord Edgar brought his bride to Mandacrest. Portents of dread creaked in every dank corner of the ancient manor. The bride's sepulchral maid remained loyal beyond the grave to the first Lady Hillcrest, whose portrait was known to bleed when a stray bullet punctured the canvas. On nights when a full moon peeked through the clouds, Lord Edgar's Karloffian butler showed a disconcerting tendency to sprout wolfs hair...
...paper butterfly take flight and land against a wall, fresh and flat as new paint. In a dark, lush corner of the Garcia Marquez canvas one can see Erendira (pronounced Eh-ren-de-ra) and her dotty grandmother. They live alone, slave and exacting mistress of a crumbling manor, and when the house burns down, Grandma blames Erendira and takes the girl out to the desert to earn their keep on her back. Erendira's passive expertise as a prostitute makes her famous and her grandmother rich; soldiers and senators pay dearly for her favors. Only a young...