Word: manors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world's social conscience may well rejoice when it hears the glad tidings that the international crisis has at last penetrated the cloister walls of that Wellesley-satellite, Pine Manor. The powers-that-be have decided to postpone their production of Archibald MacLeish's "Air Raid" in order "to avoid complicating the international situation...
...grandson, Henry Sturgis Dennison, is the present head of this family concern. A shrewd, eccentric Yankee, he is bald and sharp-featured, likes to tug at his eyebrows and play the violin, organ, piano; he also likes to fish and fly kites. When he built a $75,000 Tudor manor, he horrified the architect by refusing to have leaded windows. Said he: "I'm not going to have a view of 20 miles spoiled by tradition." Once, after he strained his shoulder chopping, a doctor arrived to find him standing in his living room clad only in khaki pants...
These and other innovations to win friends and influence people are the work of John Marvin Yost, a local boy who went into the bank 21 years ago and married a distant relative of its founder, Hotelman James Hatcher. Banker Yost, whose extracurricular activities include a model "Chick Manor" complete with running water and radio, launched his stunts one by one on First National's conservative directors. He says they "have tolerated, me because they . . . know I am honest, with one thing in mind: to run a good bank and make money." Last week Banker Yost rejoiced that deposits...
...watches his sons--the sons of Cornell--do battle with the Bruin-bruised sons of John. Vag will smile, too. Like Ezra, he feels that Cornell is probably going "to be great." But, like Ezra, Vag also "took his measures accordingly." This afternoon he will escort his Pine Manor cheering section to the game, well knowing that their young voices can last out even the toughest gridiron battle. It's Vag's own personal sacrifice. The Crimson will get vocal support, but God help Vag's eardrums...
...toward naked Montauk Point, the 190-ft. Mackay Radio tower at Napeague was flung to earth. Fishing craft were splintered, fishermen's shacks blown to flinders. Refugees huddled marooned in the brick-walled Montauk Manor on high ground. On Long Island's northerly finger the hurricane from the south made shambles of the shipyards of Greenport, unroofed a full movie theatre...