Word: manors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there are some excellent characterizations. Edmund Gwenn has done a fine performance as the proprietor of a traveling show and shop. Donald Crisp is conventional but natural as the father, Elsa Lanchester quite good as the mother, but Nigel Bruce a bit under par as the Lord of the Manor and purchaser of Lassie...
...Malcolm Campbell, famed British speedster, was back in the news as a determined lord of the manor. He was charged with equipping his estate with Campbell-designed automatic spring guns which, when released, blasted away with red ochre at unwary trespassers...
...movie fans do not automatically look the other way when a British label turns up; 2) a tall, dark, retiring Briton named Joseph Arthur Rank. Tycoon Rank is 55, well preserved, and lives as simple a life as any man can with a 48,000-acre estate-Sutton Manor, in Hampshire-and another home in Surrey...
...might see crossing any Eastern campus because that is exactly what she is. Daughter of an Omaha lawyer, isolated in her early teens first by her parents' divorce and then her father's tragic death, she was educated in an Indianapolis convent school and at Pine Manor Junior College at Wellesley, Mass...
Into North Tarrytown, N.Y. at the tiller of his 1902 Anderson electric, rolled John D. Rockefeller Jr., to dedicate 17th-Century Phillipse Manor House as a colonial memorial (he gave $300,000 for its reconstruction). Next to him sat Mrs. Rockefeller; following in a buckboard were Daughter-in-law Mrs. Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller and three of her five. The procession wound up with matched Percherons drawing three wagonloads of Pocantico Hills residents. Said Restorer Rockefeller: "To me this has . . . been ... a labor of love ... in the interest of my neighbors and friends in the Tarrytowns, among whom I have lived...