Word: manors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Depression reduced Sir John to advertising for sale last week Fritwell Manor in Oxfordshire, his rural pleasure palace for almost 20 years. Lady Simon still appears at social functions in latest Paris creations, bedight with diamonds & pearls. They keep their dignified town residence...
...story starts in Scrooby, in Shakespearean times, when William Brewster, lord of the manor, first listened to the Brownists preach of a God whom the Church of England failed to recognize. After a stormy career at court Brewster retired to his country home, became the mainstay of what was regarded as a rabid sect. Among these were Eleazar Dexter and his younger brother John who, though saints of a kind, still thought enough of the devil to fall in love. Both loved the same girl, but in different ways. Eleazar was a religious bigot who loved Anne in order...
...Briarcliff Manor, not far from Nyack where lives Oom the Omnipotent, onetime "love cultist," The Groups had an international house party. Glib, bright-eyed Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman, "soul surgeon," arrived on the S. S. Aquitania with a party of 22 "experienced" members of The Groups, many of whom had met with him at a house party in Geneva last January (TIME...
...entertaining to wonder whether the four hundred followers of the Reverend Frank Buchman found copies of the current New Yorker in the living room when they gathered on Saturday for a ten-day house party at Briarcliff Manor. The portrait of Mr. Buchman and the exposition of the strange garments in which he clothes religion, as presented in the New Yorker's columns, might have made members of "The First Century Christian Fellowship" feel rather like a little girl at the terrible moment when her birthday doll turns out to be only nasty sawdust inside...
...utmost in order to accommodate the entire assemblage. Students will descend upon Providence from 25 eastern colleges: from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Williams, Amherst, Wesleyan, Brown, Dartmouth, Colby, Salem Normal, Vermont, Rhode Island State, Connecticut College for Women, Boston University, Springfield, Wellesley, Smith, Radcliffe, Mount Holyoke, Pembroke, Wheaton, Pine Manor, Massachusetts State, Clark, and Tufts