Word: manors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...William and Jean Eckart is conventional, but it effectively catches the spirit of the rambling English country manor; Herman Shumlin's direction is perceptive and crisp, but there are a couple of wordy spots in the first act where the action drags...
Though his fabulous Mayfair manor, Chesterfield House, took three years in the building, the earl never properly had a home. At 38, his personal fortune depleted by staggering losses at cards, he advertised for a wife ("I want merit and I want money"). He got the money from a middle-aged and somewhat vulgar countess who brought him ?50,000 in dowry and ?3,000 in annual income. After the wedding, they were rarely seen together...
...twelve years had there been a new edition of Burke's six-inch-thick Landed Gentry. Last week, in a rickety office in Fleet Street, Burke's genealogists put the finishing touches to the first postwar edition, in a melancholy atmosphere of impoverished squires and mortgaged manor houses. Landed Gentry used to limit itself to owners of domains that could properly be called "stately" (i.e., more than 500 acres). Now it has lowered the property qualification to 200 acres for all British families whose pedigrees have been "notable" for three generations...
Last March ten colleges met at Wellesley for an assembly, and one of the four "Russian delegates", Robert H. Langaton '53, walked out on a committee on Human Rights. According to U.N. Council president Hugh J. Schwartzberg '53, Langston was quickly followed by a rather wondering girl from Pine Manor--the Polish representative...
...interviewed local authorities, counted everything from pigs to letter boxes. They found that Offord had also been known as Upeford, Opeford, Uppe-ford, Oppeford, Upford, Hupford and Up-pord. In the Domesday Book it was Uf-ford. One Arnulf de Hesding owned ten hides (1,000 acres) at Cluny Manor, and the Countess Judith owned three at Darcy Manor. A restored Cluny Manor still stands (Oliver Cromwell slept there), and some old Offonians still remember when it was haunted by a "little old lady" who would appear late at night, flit through the drawing-room, then vanish...