Word: manors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lord of the manor held court on his land, cunt rolled local churches, was personally represented in the provincial assembly...
...with loopholes, cannon em-brasures, 3-ft. walls. King William III of England bestowed upon him in 1697 full manorial privileges.* When he died in 1700, his large estate had been divided in his will among his four sons, seven daughters. The Van Cortlandt fort was changed into a manor house, where the male head of the family continued to dwell in lordly seclusion until 1917 when James Stevenson Van Cortlandt, Civil War veteran, died without issue...
...estate. Last spring a judge ruled that the railroad must replace its structure with a drawbridge, but before he could sign his decree he died. Therefore last fortnight Mrs. Isabel R. Mason and the Misses Catherine Van Cortlandt Mathews and Anne S. Van Cortlandt, now occupants of the family manor house, appeared in the White Plains Supreme Court to recommence their suit against the railroad. Clad in sombre dresses, the three aristocratic women carried heavy volumes of history, old maps, aging documents to prove their claim. The railroad's defense: a drawbridge would cost $2,000,000; its operation...
...fashion of the day to devise novel settings for old mysteries, and the "Subway Express", now in production at the Hollis Theatre, is one of the latest examples to remove the melodrama from the more conventional English manor house, or, as was the height of the mode a season or so ago, the New York night club...
...weekend houseparty at Chevron, the sprawling ancestral manor, comes Leonard Anquetil, polar explorer, the type of free intelligence beloved by H. G. Wells. Anquetil watches the "set" at play, but himself hangs aloof, speculating. He learns of the other guests' boudoir intrigues, all artfully manipulated by his hostess. Only in Viola and Sebastian, the children of the house, does he find the strength of noble heritage without the conventions of elegant social horseplay. The pair make excellent companions, and Sebastian leads his visitor in a scamper over Chevron's rooftops, in the course of which Anquetil saves him from slipping...