Word: manors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Osbert's father was fourth baronet and Lord of the Manor of Long Itchington. "It is quite evident," he once remarked, "if you've read the family letters, that we've been working up toward something for a long time." At these words Osbert "experienced a slight lifting of the heart." But his father was not referring to the literary notoriety of his three children.* Sir George, wealthy landlord of the great Yorkshire estate of Renishaw (inherited by Sir Osbert in 1943) believed that art was merely "part of the general make-up of the cultured...
...River to Park Street. As a Harvard man--in a qualified sense--you take the "cah over the Chahles to Pahk." As a pro tem and pseudo Crimson student you may move only in strict channels so far as relations with women are concerned. Those channels are Radcliffe, Pine Manor, and Wellesley. You may date a Radcliffe girl, but the chances are pretty good that she'll outrank you; also her disbursing grades will be higher than yours. You may date a Pine Manor or Wellesley girl, but she has to catch a train at 2345; therefore you lose...
Maybe all of the 180 didn't get there, but those who didn't can be sure they missed a dandy deal at the Continental. Our thanks to the Junior and Senior Officers, to say nothing of those gorgeous "creatures" from Pime Manor, Wellesley, and Points West...
Favorable reports are still coming through from the midshipmen who took the excursion to Pine Manor last weekend. Pine Manor hospitality and pulchritude both, according to those present, are unsurpassed in this area...
...covers a mammoth ammunition dump of 80,000 tons of aerial bombs, shells of all calibers. In steel huts are 33,000,000 rounds of one type of shell. The master and his family, who live in this volcanic world with calm aplomb, have turned over most of the manor house to U.S. officers. Relations between manor and mess are happy, especially so since the day U.S. troops pumped out the manor house's flooded basement and discovered my lord's lost hunting horn. In still another English depot, covering...