Word: pontefract
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...fence in tennis shorts and sweater. The ad is clearly intended to make a family-to-family connection between the Governor and her electorate. But its unintended effect is to remind viewers of the wide chasm that separates this upper-crust clan, which beds down at the 222-acre Pontefract Farm, from the average undecided voter trying to pay the taxes on a row house in Bayonne...
...plot, although occasionally amusing, is at best a feeble affair. The small measure of acclaim the book deserves is owing to the character portrayal. Major Daviot, Captain Bradford, Mrs. Bradford, Lord Pontefract and some of the other important characters are well-delineated. This much is to be expected, for Mary Borden and her husband, Brigadier-General E. L. Spears, move in circles similar to those she describes, with officers living beyond their means and trying to counter-balance the everyday boredom of peacetime military existence by gambling for high stakes and similar diversions...
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