Word: manors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sept. 15, 1946, the first of the 229 houses of her (George Washington) Carver Manor went on sale at $11,400 and $11,200 each. Some 500 Negroes swarmed over the lot. Most buyers had steady jobs as schoolteachers, policemen and firemen, were good credit risks, earned enough to furnish their homes comfortably and keep them in good repair. Mrs. Grant signed up 110 buyers the first day, had waiting lines for weeks. She is now building an additional 33 units and a $140,000 shopping center for a new 95-house annex to Carver Manor, besides the bigger...
With their new riches, the Trapps "bought a view" in Vermont. A few weeks after they moved in, the old farmhouse came down in a windstorm. They have rebuilt it into a handsome, 20-room Tyrolean manor house. In winter, while the family is on concert tour, the house will be used as a hostelry for skiers...
...thing in evolution, retains the shrunken vestiges of once-vital organs which no longer serve much real purpose, and only cause trouble if they try to. Take for example, in 20th Century U.S. civilization, the father of a bride. Take specifically Mr. Stanley Banks of 24 Maple Drive, Fairview Manor, a vestigial organ in a perfect state of preservation...
...Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, was sold to a real-estate agent who intends to break up its interior into apartments. Millions of moviegoers had seen its white-marble staircase as part of a Southern plantation house in Gone With the Wind, and as part of an English manor in Rebecca...
Quibbling Oldsters. Aubrey loved the medieval manor house, half dwelling, half barnyard, where the cackling and lowing of livestock were "then thought not . . . ill musique." But, unlike most antiquarians, he never allowed nostalgia to blind him to the bad aspects of the good old days: "The conversation and habits of those times were as starcht as their bands and square beards; and gravity was then taken for wisdom. The doctors in those days were but old boys, when quibbles past for wit even in their sermons...