Word: manors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most of the classes are held and where most administration offices are located is horrible. An offensive odor pervades the place and the stairs creak menacingly. The theatre is miniscule and looks to be falling apart. By far the finest looking building is rarely used. The magnificent Zabriskie Estate manor house, "Blithewood," overlooking the Hudson, is used occasionally for conferences and dances, but stands idle most of the time...
...fasts. From too much fasting he grows weak. Troubled with mysterious pain of body and soul, he struggles helplessly with his practical responsibilities. The children of the village laugh at him, prank him ruthlessly. When he innocently tries to give spiritual advice to the worldly lord of the manor, that glacial aristocrat calls him crazy. Soon everyone seems to hate him. The middle-aged priest of the next parish explains why: "Your simplicity . . . burns them...
...little priest" has only one success, but that is enough to ruin him. With a magnificent effort of his whole soul-it is the finest scene in the film-he converts the lady of the manor. But the strain is too much for her heart, and she dies the same night. Everybody blames her confessor...
...Vegas, Nev., shooting for one of golf's richest prizes, the $35,000 Las Vegas Open, Art Wall Jr., 30, a pro from Pocono Manor, Pa., banged out rounds of 69-66-70-73, to beat Runners-Up Lloyd Mangrum and Al Besselink by six strokes...
...Duke of Beaufort's houseparty was falling to pieces. Rain had kept the guests cooped up in Badminton Manor, champagne was running low, old friends were so bored with each other that they were reduced to a half-forgotten childhood game. Someone stretched a cord across one of the manor corridors, and, so the story goes, a couple of lackadaisical wine-bibbers discovered that they still had energy enough to stick a crest of goose quills into a champagne cork. They began to bat the cork back & forth across the cord with empty bottles. Suddenly the party came...