Word: manors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three large, typewritten folios, produced officially by the College of Arms, now trace the new viscount back to William Morrice of Swarford who in 1278 held land in Swarford in the manor of Hooknorton. "Not a quarter of i% of the population," commented the Sunday Express, "can trace their ancestry back this...
...village school. Hurst's Grammar School never ranked with Eton, but Nuffield many years ago bought it and converted it into his motor firm's offices. Now he owns it, and no 011 Etonian's son owns Eton. For his home he bought the neighboring manor house. According to Viscount Nuffield: "The only true story in the press blurbs about me is that in 1921 I slashed the prices of all my cars ?100 [$500] when the industry was facing hard times. By the end of the year my sales had easily topped those...
...Fort Plain, New York; B. F. Bart, Jr. '38, West Redding, Connecticut; R. S. Bart '40, Redding, Connecticut; P. Baur '38, Leonia; New Jersey; D. Beck '38, Union City, New Jersey; P. I. Blumberg '39, New York; M. P. Brown '40, Rochester, New York; L. A. Campbell '39, Pelham Manor, New York; F. L. Chamberlin, Jr. '39, Stamford, Connecticut; J. L. Chase '39, Tully, New York; H. F. Cline '39, Elizabeth, New Jersey...
...National Jamboree in Washington (TIME, July 12), spent their happiest hours swapping horned toads, pickled scorpions, live hoot owls-everything but puppy dog tails. The first international encampment in the U. S. of Girl Scouts and Girl Guides -only 101 strong-convened last week in a grove near Briarcliff Manor, about 35 miles north of Manhattan, but again the primeval urge made itself felt. Their barter, however, consisted of more appropriate articles, cotton bolls from South Carolina, scarves, tubes of powdered iron ore from Minnesota. Scout Sally Page of El Paso appeared with trade goods consisting of $2,000 worth...
...group called Mystery of Life, at its top an 87-ft. Tower of Legends. Over the threats and legal objections of California morticians, Forest Lawn was the first large cemetery in the U. S. to install its own mortuary. There is also an Administration Building, copied from an English manor house and full of antiques, a flower shop, a crematory where last year 16% of the dead were received and a towering $4,500,000 Mausoleum-Columbarium, with a Memorial Court of Honor, Memorial Terrace, Sanctuaries of Meditation, Vespers, Benediction, Trust and Truth. For Jean Harlow, William Powell chose...