Word: manors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Deal" and the "Willkie Crusade" each sent two ardent representatives to Wellesley yesterday afternoon to convince the denizens of Pine Manor to vote the right way in a debate sponsored by the gals' International Relations Club...
Accepting a challenge of John M. London '41, president of the Roosevelt Club here, the local Willkie group has scheduled several debates with Roosevelt supporters, including a debate between Langdon P. Marvin '41 and Thomas Matters '43 at Pine Manor next Wednesday. George Saxion '44 has been chosen chairman of the Freshman Willkie Club...
...girls of Pine Manor Junior College will receive a special treat with their afternoon tea next Wednesday when they hear two of the leaders in the rival Harvard political organizations debate the campaign issues...
Sample: a playlet which takes place in "the combination cellar and playroom of the Bradley home in Pelham Manor. Mr. and Mrs. Bradley and their two children, Bobby and Susie, are grouped about their new automatic oil burner. They are all in faultless evening dress, including Rover, the family Airedale." After a sufficiently shattering amount of balloon dialogue ("Oh, Moms, I'm so glad you and Dads decided to install a Genfeedco automatic oil burner and air conditioner with the new self-ventilating screen flaps plus finger control!"), Bobby answers the door and "admits Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher...
When the Second Mrs. Tanqueray was originally presented, it shocked Victorian audiences out of their buttoned boots. The play pointed up the fact that a lady can't roll in the hay and then expect to live in the manor. Although Sir Arthur Wing Pinero laced his drama with many a tight homily and saw to it that his Paula's past caught up with her in the end, the uniform reaction of audiences was one of shocked disapproval. Produced during the same year in London and New York, the Second Mrs. Tanqueray inspired much pulpitation, was condemned...