Word: manors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lord of the Manor of Lychpole" (Waugh himself lives in a stately house called Piers Court...
Briarcliff Manor...
...they bore on the left the coat of arms (three red mullets and red and white bars) of John Washington, George Washington's great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather. Probably made for John's grandson Robert, the panels had stayed in the Washington 16th century Sulgrave Manor for almost 300 years, but recently turned up as kitchen windows in the Northamptonshire home of Littérateur Sacheverell Sitwell, who put them up for auction...
...between Davis and a dealer named Robert Jack. At ?3,200 ($8,960), the auctioneer held the gavel in the air for almost half a minute, then knocked Lot 40 down to Davis. Said the sad-faced Jack, who was bidding to return the panels to Sulgrave Manor (a privately operated museum): "A tragedy. We had no chance against the almighty dollar." Davis had bought for the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, N.Y., which plans to bring the panels to the U.S. without delay...
During the season the Radcliffe varsity, paced by high-scoring forward Ann Luyten, registered decisive victories over Wheelock, Pine Manor, Sufolk, Lesley, and Brandeis, while dropping only one other contest...