Word: manors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...front cover) The compass point of all Europe last week was a huge square brick and stucco manor house in East Prussia atop which perched pensively a knobby-kneed stork called "Oscar...
Water, Wine & Order! Candles were winking in the old Neudeck manor house. When bristling Chancellor Hitler arrived in civilian clothes and sat down to dinner with President von Hindenburg, also in mufti and limping about on his cane. In a sense Neudeck is Nazidom's gift to the House of Hindenburg. Wealthy Junker admirers of Old Paul bought the estate and gave it in 1927 to Col. Oscar von Hindenburg, so that when the President died there would be no annoying inheritance tax. Later gifts of adjoining estates brought Old Paul's acres...
...Texas Representative Richard M. Kleberg; and Forrest Lee Andrews. Houston attorney; in "Santa Gertrudis" on the Kine Ranch. Texas. Mrs. Andrews is a member of the Kleberg dynasty which for half a century has ruled Texas' 1,250,000-acre King Ranch of which Santa Gertrudis is the manor house. The ranch's value is estimated at $18,590,000 (TIME, Dec. 4). Present at the wedding were 2,500 guests...
...left Berlin two weeks ago, supposedly to doze out the summer at his big manor house in East Prussia, but suddenly last week German statesmen were startled to feel again the enormous weight in high politics of HINDENBURG...
...went to an Ethical Culture school, Swarthmore College and the Columbia School of Journalism, then did publicity work and odd jobs on Manhattan newspapers. She has traveled widely in Europe, is still a spinster. At present she is teaching something called "creative writing" at a girls' school (Briarcliff Manor...