Word: manors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Walter Beaver, Berwyn, Pa. electrician: the 32nd annual American clay target championship at singles; with 198 birds out of a possible 200. to 197 for Tracy Lewis of New York; on an overcast afternoon in an east wind that made the targets dip and soar: at Pelham Manor, N. Y. ¶ The New York Giants. 4-to-1: a baseball game against the Chicago Cubs, in which famed left-handed Pitcher Carl Hubbell tied the modern major-league record of 20 consecutive League victories established by left-handed Giant Pitcher Rube Marquard in 1911 and 1912; in New York...
...dinner the conversation was as varied as the conversants. Shirley Temple and the Supreme Court; "Last Year's Kisses" and Professor So-and-So; the tax on undistributed corporate earnings and the virtues of Pine Manor; all met in mid-air with remarkable harmony...
Duke Oliver, the colored maestro, is returning with his Rhythm Manor Orchestra, and the Deacons will dance from 10 o'clock until two in the Junior Common Room and the Dining Room, which will be decorated in the Yuletide spirit. An ample supply of mistletoe is being laid in, and a midnight supper is planned for the intermission...
Duke Oliver and his Rhythm Manor Orchestra will furnish the music for the annual Kirkland Christmas Dance on Friday evening, December 11, from 10 to 2 o'clock. Dress will be formal; tickets are priced at $2.50 per couple and $1.50 stag...
...months ago, he has studiously refrained from all political activity. Nevertheless, he was at pains to give White House correspondents the slip one afternoon last week and, on pretext of visiting his ailing Secretary of War at Walter Reed Hospital, motored 20 miles into Maryland to Oxon Hill Manor, country house of Assistant Secretary of State Sumner Welles. There the President conferred with some 30 local Democrats, including Maryland's Senator Radcliffe, Baltimore's Mayor Jackson, National Committeeman Howard Bruce. When the Baltimore Sun discovered this privy excursion, newshawks rushed to the White House to question Press Secretary...