Word: manors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great manor house of Alresford, Hants, one spring day 797 years ago, a gentle-hearted lady lay sick unto death. Outside her chamber windows yeomen's ploughs bit deep into her rich husband's acres, preparing them for the crops that would make him even richer by summer's end. But all Lady Tichborne could think of were the poor villagers in Alresford with little or no land or wheat of their...
...effort took her last breath, and as she died Lady Tichborne uttered a great curse. Unless each year, on Lady Day, the Tichbornes gave to every adult in the village one gallon of flour, and to every child one half-gallon, the manor house would crumble; there would be a generation of seven sons, a generation of seven daughters, and then the Tichborne name would...
Forty-five goggling Pine Manor girls emerged from their lace-hung auditorium, half-way down the road to Wellesley, last night with a rudementary knowledge of the Swedish financial structure...
...cute," Natatashia L. Rurthey, Pine Manor '48, commented eagerly after the speech. "And what a nice background. I mean match-boxes, and Swedish dollar bills, and things...
Child of England. Field Place, the Sussex manor house where Shelley was born and grew up, "has a mighty roof of Horsham stone, and a line of chimneys like towers." It also has a park, a brook and a lake satisfactory to a fanciful child. Shelley's father, the squire, was a progressive gentleman farmer and brought up his eldest son to know something about pig-raising and Swedish turnips. If Percy seemed literary in boyhood, his literariness was long confined to a large appetite for sixpenny thrillers about vampires, specters and enchantments-a set of motifs he never...