Word: manors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Equitable Life Assurance Society. Mr. Hyde was attended by a cook, a librarian and twelve other khitmutgars. He took a suite overlooking Hyde Park. Said he: "I am on a pilgrimage. My family's former estate was Hyde Park. Four hundred years ago they lived at Hyde Park Manor House, later confiscated by Henry VIII...
...charcoal burners among whom M. le Braz grew up. At ten years of age he was sent to school at Saint-Brieuc, and progressed with commendable swiftness to a degree at the Sorbonne. After seven years of university work in Paris, he returned to Brittany, to an old manor house at Quimper, where he often welcomed the local peasantry and fishermen, warming their hearts by his love of the things they loved and listening by the hour to their tales. For 14 years he taught in the Lycée at Quimper and gradually he translated the old songs...
Died. Herbert Claibourne Pell. 73, distinguished descendant of the Pells of Pelham Manor (N. Y.), retired lawyer, father of Herbert Claibourne Pell Jr. (onetime Chairman of the N. Y. Democratic State Committee), and of Clarence C. Pell, famed U. S. racquet champion (see p. 35); at Manhattan, of apoplexy...
...night while he rows her through the moonlit salt marshes she has to admit it. Compunction for Eustace is hardly in order, and as for the girl that wants Geoffrey, ?well, she forfeits her claim by chasing Gita. all over the lawns and shrubbery of the old manor house in a roadster with murder in its bright lights...
...Kentucky, contiguous to Tennessee, Miss Lela V. Scopes, like her brother an Evolutionist, was refused reappointment to her position in the Paducah schools. Smiling, she announced that she had signed a contract to teach in the Highland Manor School for Girls at Tarrytown...