Word: manors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Martial music receded as the frontier was driven back, and life in Georgia took on a richer note. Master workmen from over the sea built manor houses of English brick, and English airs were sung to the plucked melodies of harpsichords in great colonial halls...
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From Greenwich busses will convey the players to Briarcliff Lodge at Briarcliff Manor, N. Y., 20 miles from West Point and on the other side of the Hudson. A light practice on the Lodge grounds is scheduled for 4.15. Saturday morning the party will cross the Bear Mountain Bridge to arrive at the Military Academy at 12.15, with lunch at Greystone Manor. After the game busses will leave from the field at 5.30, connecting with a special train which will bring the squad to Cambridge, Saturday night...
...Newport were their wives and many a sweetheart. Forty miles to Long Island's tip slowly steamed the fleet, to drop anchor in Fort Pond Bay, sheltered by the curve of Montauk Point, where dimly through fog and rain could be seen the bulk of the Montauk Manor hotel above the cottages of the tiny fishing village of Montauk...
...conference took place at Matameck Factory, Copley Amory's manor on Moisie Bay, near the Labrador boundary. A rich Boston merchant who has canoed and snowshoed over a great part of north central Canada, Copley Amory, 65, rebuilt a ruined Hudson's Bay trading post as a refuge from hayfever and a base for fishing. The few Indians and whites in the neighborhood have found in him their patron in sickness and want. Serious want comes to the Canadian backwoods families about every ten years. The game upon which they depend for food and profit runs through...