Word: manors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stoutish, heavy-shouldered, with a grey mustache and grey hair. He limps badly from an old motorcycle accident, walks with two canes and is happiest on horseback. So are his handsome, brilliant wife and six children -three sons and three daughters-all of whom now live in the Bernanos manor, Cruz das Almas...
Major Kermit Roosevelt, son of the late Teddy, took part in his first action against the Japs-a reconnaissance flight over Kiska. Back home, his 20-room manor at Oyster Bay, L.I., was opened as a convalescent home for torpedoed merchant seamen. Mrs. Henry A. Wallace, reviewing a parade of WAACs at Fort Des Moines, congratulated the leader of the winning group of marchers so successfully that Margaret M. Wheatley burst into tears. Emily Bradley Saltonstall, daughter of Massachusetts' Governor, enlisted in the WAVES in Boston as an apprentice seaman. Alfred Ryder, 26, long the "Sammy" of Radio...
...Marquess was a gruff-voiced Lord-of-the-Manor type who had divorced his wife, the Lady Emma, second daughter of the Marquess of Bath. There had been a great clatter and clucking at the divorce. His Lordship did not seem to mind the talk. One of his ancestors had been a bosom friend of Henry VIII, and the men of Northampton had never bothered greatly about what others said. Their motto was "I seek only...
...broadcast will carry special interest for Harvard men for it was learned that Dorothy is an old Pine Manor girl whose opinion of Harvard men is slightly limited. "My only date with a Harvard man was a blind one," she confessed, "and he was a drip...
...ridden by Socialite Stuart S. Janney Jr: the 49th running of the Maryland Hunt Cup, stiffest steeplechase in the U.S.; outjumping eight stout rivals and finishing the awesome four-mile course in 8 min., 44 4/5 sec.; near Baltimore. Having won the Grand National and My Lady's Manor point-to-points on two previous Saturdays, Janney & Winton made a grand slam of Maryland's famed hunt races-a feat never before accomplished...