Word: manors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WINSTON LEONARD SPENCER CHURCHILL is fond of his collection of goldfish. When he approaches their pools in the lovely grounds of his country house at Chartwell Manor in Kent, the goldfish dart eagerly toward him. Churchill, wearing his familiar siren suit, an overcoat of a peculiarly bilious pea green draped over his shoulders, was feeding them one afternoon this week. One hand held the inevitable black cigar, and the other dipped into the tin of fish food proffered by his bodyguard...
...likely the thieving steward of Glastonbury Abbey during the reign of Henry VIII. "The story goes," say the Opies, "that at the time of the Dissolution, the abbot ... sent his steward to [Henry VIII] with a Christmas gift: a pie in which were hidden the title deeds of twelve manors. On the journey, Jack Horner is said to have opened the pie and extracted the deed of the Manor of Mells . . . His descendants live there to this...
George Washington also turned up in the art news again-this time as a rather foxy-faced gentleman in a braided blue jacket. A picture portraying him in such fashion, long mistitled A Naval Officer, now hangs in Sulgrave Manor, ancestral Northamptonshire home of the Washington family...
...earl's fancy: to have a picture of his revolutionary relation as first President of the U.S. Supposedly mislaid, the picture was found hanging in the hall of the 15th earl in 1939, identified as Robertson's Washington. Last May, the earl sent it off to Sulgrave Manor (since 1914 a Washington shrine). Not especially publicity conscious, Sulgrave Manor just got around to announcing the acquisition last week...
...Said the Manchester Guardian: "Sit around and have tea and crumpets, indeed! When he is not carrying coal, the contemporary lord of the manor has his coat off mowing the lawn...