Word: manors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were daffy doings last week in an old colonial garden in Virginia. The garden belonged to Hampton Manor, 486-acre estate near Bowling Green, Va. The estate, with a brick mansion, built in 1838 by Virginia Legislator Daniel de Jarnette from plans by his friend Thomas Jefferson, is now owned by Mrs. Caresse Crosby, late of literary Paris. Her house guests were Arch-Surrealist Salvador Dali & wife. Hence the dilly-Dali...
...Power character, Ben, is a big, hot-blooded, black-haired Bristol bastard whose story is as old and formal as legend : the proud but-for-base-birth heir-to-the-manor who a) vows vengeance against his humiliators, b) wanders and adventures far, c) returns rich, to deal with friends and foes according to their deserts...
Chief humiliator is Uncle Arthur Blake, Squire of Breetholm Manor, who takes his elder brother's by-blow into service, spends a futile year trying to break his spirit. Benjamin beats him to a pulp, boards a Boston ship, is marooned for seven years on a South Pacific paradise...
Welch also announced that Robert W. Chase '44, of Wellesley Hills and Thayer Hall., and Richard C. Sorlein, of Pelham Manor, N. Y. and Wigglesworth, has been added to the Jubilee Committee. These appointments give the Jubilee Committee twelve members and make it complete...
...critics, fun for artists. Britain's famous Sitwells love fun. Last month, between bombs, they had their fun in court. The Three Sitwells are not an acrobatic act. They are Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell, the fractious, fastidious scions of Sir George Reresby Sitwell, fourth Baronet, Lord of the Manor of Long Itchington. Osbert is a poet, essayist, novelist (Before the Bombardment, Escape With Me). Sacheverell is an outstanding authority on baroque art and Liszt, author of a distinguished travel book (Roumanian Journey) and much verse. Edith usually dresses like a medieval prioress, writes sharp, hard, colorful poetry that gives...