Word: manors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Completing its first extended tour since 1941, the Glee Club presented concerts at five New York and Pennsylvania colleges during the spring recess. The high lights of the tour after performances at Skidmore College, Elmira College, Ogontz Junior College, and Briareliff manor Junior College was a concert of Sacred Choral Music presented at Vassar with the Vassar College Choir...
...progressive man held palaver. The U.S. Navy's softspoken, sensitive Commodore Ben Wyatt might well have wondered why progress had to sacrifice this lovely coral atoll, instead of an empty wasteland, a dismal slum or a plaguesome Buchenwald. Bikini's tall, tawny Paramount Chief Juda, manor lord of 160 Christian islanders, took comfort in the will of Heaven...
Married. John Wayne (real name.: Marion Michael Morrison), 38, outstanding (6 ft. 2 in.) Hollywood Horse Operative; and Esperanza Baur, 24, to-the-manor-born Mexican cinemactress; both for the second time (she again to a Morrison, he again to a Latin American); in Long Beach, Calif...
...Author Waugh lives in an old Gloucestershire manor house with his (second) wife, and four children whom he affects to detest. He is a connoisseur of wines and cigars, wears a bowler, takes the air swinging an old-fashioned cane. He cannot drive a car, shuns the telephone, barely accepts a telegram. Sighs his go-ahead friend Randolph Churchill: "He becomes more old-fashioned . . . every day. His favorite novelist is Trollope. . . . He seeks to live in an oasis...
...Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., a mouse shut off the electricity. In Freeport, Ill., an owl jammed a high-tension transformer...