Word: manors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Examining the interior of an English manor house: "Say, this must be one of those old Long Island places they've shipped over and put up over here. . . . What did she mean?'a run with the hounds'? Ain't they nobody to take the dogs out in this country? ... In the U. S. our deer hunters shoot each other so often we put red coats on them?so we can find them easier after they're dead...
While she was in Miss Hazen's School at Pelham Manor, N. Y., Ruth Chatterton went to Washington for the Christmas holidays with four other girls and a chaperone. Because she had been talking all term about wanting to be an actress, one of her friends dared her to try to get a job at a theatre near the hotel. She took the dare. A year later, when she was 15, she got out of the musical show and into a small part in a stock company with Lowell Sherman, Pauline Lord. Lenore...
...Pratt at Glen Cove, L. I. Around the rim of a water-skirted tract of 1,000 acres they have their homes-George at "Killenworth," Charles at "Seamoor," Harold at "Welwyn," Herbert at "The Braes," Frederic in Dosoris Lane. Congresswoman Ruth Baker Pratt, widow of Brother John, lives at "Manor House." Between them they have the yachts Carola, Dodger III, Whisper, Tuna. In the centre of their joint estate stand their stables and dairy farm, an institutional affair of red brick, manned by spick-&-span hostlers and milkmen...
This lurid hypothesis was dismissed by District Attorney McGeehan of The Bronx with the remark: "I see no purpose to be served in summoning Terranova." Mr. Terranova himself, interviewed in his Spanish mansion, extensively decorated with stuffed birds, in Pelham Manor, N. Y., denied that he was at the dinner, stated that there is nothing unusual about his limousine...