Word: manors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...walls could speak, the manor house of Nohant in the French province of Berry would be a Niagara of sound. Chopin and Liszt set their music echoing through it; Flaubert and the younger Dumas produced puppet plays (music by Chopin) on its floor. Delacroix painted in Nohant's garden studio, and such famous guests as Balzac, Theophile Gautier and Alfred de Vigny argued and tittle-tattled in its drawing room. In the middle years of the 19th century, Nohant's halls, echoed to the thump of packed bags as estranged lovers and mistresses stormed down them...
...scores of orators were testifying at commencements across the U.S., is in a sorry mess. But what is really wrong? And what can be done? Last week one answer came from a man who had gone to Wellesley, Mass, to see his daughter Jill, 19, graduate from Pine Manor Junior College. Said Novelist William (Sanctuary) Faulkner...
Charlie Chaplin and family prepared to live in Switzerland for a while. In the mountain village of Corsier-sur-Vevey overlooking Lake Geneva, Chaplin paid $200,000 for a 13-room manor, paid another $93,000 to fill it with rented furniture for six months...
Templer's father had started a collection of regimental trophies, flags, uniforms and weapons at Loughgall Manor, Armagh. Templer set up a regimental museum, restored to the regiment its original war trophy: Napoleon's eagle-headed standard, which an Irish rifleman had captured in the Peninsular...
Former Under Secretary of State Sum, ner Welles, 59, called in a Manhattan real-estate firm to find a buyer for his famed 245-acre Oxon Hill Manor estate in Maryland, the weekend relaxing spot for many an oldtime New Dealer. Estimated value...