Word: manors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kleptomania when caught in the act. Whatever effect Lady Barnett's death may have on the reform of shoplifting laws, some noncompulsive thieves added a ghoulish touch to the debate: while members of her family were attending a memorial service, thieves broke into Lady Barnett's manor house near Leicester and stole $14,400 worth of silver...
...Victorian aristocracy as it saw itself: serene, assured and confident, as no one has been since, that tomorrow would be just the same as today. In one 1858 picture. Lord Palmerston, who was soon to be Prime Minister, stands with a group on the impressive steps of his manor, Broadlands; his top hat makes him look ten feet tall, and, judging by the expression on his face, that is precisely how he felt...
Tung, seeded eighth in the tourney, advanced to the third round by stopping top players from the University of Vermont and the University of Washington, scoring 3-0 victories in both matches. She then lost to Pine Manor's Jane Giammattei, the 1979 National Junior Champion...
Viewers will recognize many of the photographs from their reading of Russian literature. One magnificent, sprawling landscape of the Dikanka estate in the Ukraine, complete with manor house, onion-domed church and clusters of khaty, or peasant huts, is a breathtaking evocation of Gogol's stories, Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka. So many Russians of genius spent their childhoods in such manor houses, with their colonnaded porticoes and vast, cool rooms teeming with relatives, family retainers and hangers-on. Nearly all of Russia's 19th century writers were members of the much maligned gentry, and their fiction...
...Russian Empire's peasants, who became the object of a near mystical cult in the latter part of the 19th century. Illiterate, impoverished and much abused, the peasants were known for their generous nature and a predilection for violence that sometimes led them to burn down the manor house, or even murder the squire, as happened to Dostoyevsky's serf-owning father. To foreigners they seemed a dismal, squalid lot-the men with their scraggly beards and hair, the women with their inevitable head scarves. Though the peasants were in fact a rich repository of folklore and folk...