Word: manors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Radcliffe's basketball team stretched its undefeated skein to three games by walloping Pine Manor, 37 to 20, yesterday in the Annex gymnasium...
Playing alert defensive ball, 'Cliffe guards Ellen Deitsch, Anne Gordon, and Margaret Smertenko held Pine Manor forwards scoreless in the third quarter. The yellow-clad lassies rallied to score 11 points in the final period against Radcliffe's seven, but failed to catch up to the hot, early-game pace set by the home team...
Inhabiting Playwright Bagnold's Sussex manor house are a self-indulgent, irresponsible dowager who exerts a Lady Macbeth manner on trifles, her adolescent granddaughter who indulges in mischief and fabricates melodrama, a rather Shavian manservant who cannot bear being criticized, and upstairs, dying, a butler who for 40 years has ruled the household. Into it, as a companion for the granddaughter, comes a primly dressed woman with a superb and transforming knowledge of gardens, a gift for ingratiating herself with people, and an obviously beclouded past. How beclouded is made clear when a judge (Percy Waram...
...students were returning to Cambridge from Briarcliffe College in Briarcliffe Manor, N.Y. The accident occurred, police said, at 3:45 a.m. Saturday, while Lonsdale was driving...
...Congo. Thurgood Marshall says: "American Negroes have no ties with Africa. Their history begins right here." Nevertheless, like a Virginia gentleman recalling the ancestral manor in Gloucestershire, Marshall begins his family history in the old country with a great-grandfather on his mother's side. "Way back before the Civil War, this rich man from Maryland went to the Congo on a hunting expedition or something. The whole time he was there, this little black boy trailed him around. So when they got ready to come back to this country, they just picked him up and brought him along...