Word: manors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...HANGING CAPTAIN-Henry Wade -Ear court, Brace ($2). Complicated goings-on in a down-at-heel English manor...
Last week, Dr. Buchman and his 59 Group workers were well started on a great U. S. push. It had begun with a meeting in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, a luncheon to the Press, a ten-day house party at Briarcliff Manor. To anyone who recalled how that stalwart Presbyterian John Grier Hibben drove Buchmanism off the Princeton campus in disgrace for over-zealous proselytizing in 1926, the extraordinary eminence of the Waldorf meeting's sponsors would have been a surprise. On the reception committee were not only such conservative and ultra-socialite names as Mr. & Mrs. Frederic...
...sons practice law in San Francisco. Worried about his waist line, he works daily in the Senate gymnasium. Joe, his Chinese cook, he has had for over 20 years. He gets about in a Locomobile town car. He lost two cars by fire when he was living at Calvert Manor, outside Washington which, much to his ire, was bought from under him by Arkansas' late Senator Caraway. He sallies occasionally into official society, entertains friends at home with current cinema hits on his private standard-sized projector. He is well off. not rich...
Scene of The Last Adam is New Winton, a Connecticut village complete with selectmen, gossips, bootlegger, post-office politicians, curmudgeons, lady of the manor, puritans, pagans. Author Cozzens introduces the strands of New Winton's life through the neat modern medium of the local telephone exchange, where the operators are so well known they are always called by name, act as a matter of course as the village news bureau. In New Winton's collection of characters the town sawbones, Dr. Bull, stands out like a large masculine thumb. Even without his initial incentive of being a parson...
...Manton Bradley, of Milton, Frederick Myers Dearborn, Jr., of New York City, Stuart Callender Dorman, of New York City, Leon Adams Francisco, of Danville, Virginia, John Clarke Grady, of Somerville, Ass Bird Gardiner, of Riderwood, Maryland, Winfield Adelbert Huppuch, of Glens Falls, New York, James Richards Leonard, of Pelham Manor, New York, William Andrew Schroeder, Jr., of McKeesport, Pennsylvania, St. John Smith, Jr., of New York City, Theodore Winthrop Stedman, Jr., of Springfield, George Quincy Thorndike, of Millis, Benton Spangler Wood, of Honolulu, Hawaii...