Word: manors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beefy George Grosz for his The Survivor, a carefully painted war nightmare. Grosz, whose acid commentaries on World War I, and the social evils which followed in Germany, earned him international fame and the hatred of the Nazis, became a U.S. citizen in 1938, settled down in Douglas Manor, N.Y. to paint heavily larded nudes and Cape Cod sand dunes. When his old fears and disgusts overtake him, he is still a frightening artist...
...stairs were in the Hohenzollerns' last architectural effort-the Cecilienhof, a Tudor manor constructed in 1913-17 for the Crown Prince. In a graceful sweep, the stairs descended from Churchill's quarters into the 50-foot-high meeting room. These stairs were meant for a grand entrance, complete with aigrettes and sequins. Obviously (to finicky protocol experts), Churchill could not be allowed to come down the stairs while Truman and Stalin gawked at him from below...
Winchester Wilds and Belmont Manor have a certain something in common, or so is spread the rumor, but W. W. (for brevity) has a little more of it. Success, so say the W. boys (Woodin, Willcox, Walker, Wood, Brocker--a ringer--and Wolf), if only in the mind, so take heart, mssrs. Schroeder, Shellenbarger, Marchese, Bourgeois, and Ballentine...
...Pelham Manor...
...glow with the lyric magic of the region's folk tales. His mellow, witty impressions of England, gathered in a year (1943-44) as professor of American history at Cambridge, are as vividly colored: he met and "robbed" many an English man in college commons, in pubs, manor houses, railway carriages, on country meadows and London sidewalks...