Word: manors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grind, a sweat," he says. A Briton, Forsyth left England in 1974 to escape having to pay an 83% tax on royalties. After a year in Spain, he and his Ulster-born wife Carrie settled in Ireland, where they bought and refurbished Kilgarron, an 18th century manor house surrounded by 25 acres of woodland in County Wicklow. When things are dull, the Forsyths go to Dublin or London, but they are usually happy to stay at home, playing tennis, clearing the land or feeding their turkeys and chickens. "Country life," he says, "is very consuming...
...branch. (On his visit to England in June, Chip Carter apparently visited the wrong ancestral village, Christchurch, which is about 100 miles southwest of King's Langley.) In any event, Carter's onetime countrymen are delighted to find that the President of the U.S. is to the manor born, sort of. Says Brooks-Baker: "The English always wanted Carter to be an aristocrat...
...Pine Manor...
...trolley left them at a deserted stop in the middle of suburbia, and it took them some wandering through the broad residential streets to find Pine Manor. After following a few dead ends, and raising a few homeowners' wrath by cutting through their yards, they arrived at a seven-foot high chain link fence surrounding what appeared to be college dorms nestled in the rolling, wooded campus. The terrain was carefully landscaped and the neat asphalt walkways beyond the fence were well-lit, although no one seemed to be using them...
...three rode the trolley home. Tom and Mike said it proved a sad stereotype. Going home alone, they were quite willing to believe that. Walter thought to himself that the story proved the Harvard magic name could work. In any case, the word would be passed about Pine Manor women...