Word: manors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Whole blocks of shanties were burned to the ground; in one house, seven out of a family of eleven died in the flames. Fleeing Indians were struck down in the streets as they tried to escape. Seven were flung bodily from a railroad train. From the settlement at Cato Manor, Indian women & children by the hundreds fled shrieking into the tropical bush, while others were pulled from their homes to be beaten and raped...
...over the world. In last week's mail was a hand-tooled notecase from D.P.s in a camp in Germany. Other letters came from Dutch people whose farms were flooded, from Frenchmen who lived out the Nazi occupation. Most correspondents write wistfully of the serenity of Jalna manor and the abundant life of its people...
After the Pembroke game at Radcliffe, the Annex squad will play Jackson College away on March 29. Another game may be scheduled with Boston University's student nurses. Several teams will compete at two play Days in March, one at Pine Manor and one at Wellesley...
Other intercollegiate meets planned for the new term include swimming meets at the Pine Manor, Wellesley Play Days and competition in modern dance and lacrosse. Miss Harriet Clarke gym instructor, also wants to extend Radcliffe extra-mural fencing, and several girls are already attending local fencing club activities...
There was more confusion when the disappointed brigade of newsreel cameramen and reporters arrived at Dodona Manor, the Marshalls' Leesburg, Va. home. The Marshall houseman told them that Madame Chiang had requested two days of privacy. Madame Chiang, however, soon sent word that she would willingly be photographed, came outside to chat and pose...