Word: manors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Following the entertainment, the Smoker will raffle off a Victor radio, books, a shirt, and other articles. At this point in the festivities, girls from six different colleges will get a chance to show off in the Smoker's beauty contest. Lasell, Pine Manor, Sargent, Simmons, Wellesley, and Wheelock have all entered contestants...
...meantime, Lasell, Pine Manor, Sargent, Simmons, Wellesley, and Wheelock have agreed to send entries to a Smoker beauty contest. Radcliffe refused an invitation because the Dean's Office was not "in sympathy" with the idea...
...young Prince Charles of Edinburgh. The 24 poems that make up the volume are echoes of a sturdier Masefield who can still spin a tale of a country prizefight, drop a tear for the rifled tomb of an old king and enjoy the sense of friendly ghosts in Hilcote Manor. They are only echoes of the Masefield of Reynard the Fox, Enslaved and Dauber, but if they are unlikely to win the poet new admirers, they will still serve to keep the old ones mindful...
...have it any different. Even so, scholarly ex-Princeton Professor Shellabarger gives them a little more than their money's worth. For all its gaudily costumed corn, The King's Cavalier is built on a solid base of research which pays off in such things as a manor house painstakingly reconstructed right down to the canopied fireplaces and the perfume pastilles. Readers who find the dialogue less convincing will nevertheless have to admit that it can sometimes be mighty engaging...