Word: manors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...extraordinarily bad things as well as extraordinarily good. The predominance of the latter has won him his own assured niche in contemporary letters. Among his books: Exton Manor, The Squire's Daughter, The Honour of the Clintons, The Greatest of These, Anthony Dare (to which | The Education is a sequel...
...forth the earthly visit of an angel, intent on spreading sweetness and light, who finds himself gradually steeped in sticky mortality. He seeks tolerance for a lovelorn housemaid left with a war baby, lashes a war profiteer who forces his attentions on her, agitates the lady of the manor hitherto accustomed to agitating others...
CHILDREN OF THE AGE-Knut Ham-sun- Knopf ($2.50). Lieutenant Wil-latz Holmsen is the third one of that name to be lord of Segelfoss Manor. His grandfather had founded the estate and his father had maintained it. But Lieutenant Willatz Holmsen has none of the qualities to continue this work. He is proud, for one thing. If a tenant does not pay his rent, he will not ask for it. People might think he needed the money. If a demand is made upon him, he will accede to it rather than admit even to himself that he cannot afford...
...THOUSAND AND FIRST NIGHT?Grant Overton?Doran ($2.00). A young aviator, Evan Lloyd, who drops out of the sky at sunset?Cynthia Fanning, who is taking care of her invalid grandfather, the ex-sea captain Magellan Fanning, in St. Martin's Manor, the home on the end of Long Island that has belonged to the Fannings since the reign of King Charles II?the memory of a shipwreck that occurred more than ten years before the story begins?a rash debt undischarged?the narration of the tragic love story of another Cynthia Fanning and young Pedro da Gama that...
...smile made Da Vinci famous: laughter on canvas has contributed to the artistic immortality of Franz Hals. The picture just added to Mr. Thompson's collection of old masters was formerly owned by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild of Waddesdon Manor. On a canvas, 4x5 feet, it shows a fair tousle-headed boy. He wears a cap; his dark coat is lined with blue; in his upraised right hand he holds a wine glass, and laughs...