Word: manor
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...managers of the University Instrumental Clubs were made known yesterday. They are Heywood Fox '33, Pelham Manor, New York, who was chosen assistant manager for the coming year and Legrand Thurber '34, the new Freshman manager. There will be a meeting of all elected and provisionally accepted members of the club at Phillips Brooks House on Monday night at 7.30 o'clock...
...Lord of the manor held court on his land, cunt rolled local churches, was personally represented in the provincial assembly...
...with loopholes, cannon em-brasures, 3-ft. walls. King William III of England bestowed upon him in 1697 full manorial privileges.* When he died in 1700, his large estate had been divided in his will among his four sons, seven daughters. The Van Cortlandt fort was changed into a manor house, where the male head of the family continued to dwell in lordly seclusion until 1917 when James Stevenson Van Cortlandt, Civil War veteran, died without issue...
...estate. Last spring a judge ruled that the railroad must replace its structure with a drawbridge, but before he could sign his decree he died. Therefore last fortnight Mrs. Isabel R. Mason and the Misses Catherine Van Cortlandt Mathews and Anne S. Van Cortlandt, now occupants of the family manor house, appeared in the White Plains Supreme Court to recommence their suit against the railroad. Clad in sombre dresses, the three aristocratic women carried heavy volumes of history, old maps, aging documents to prove their claim. The railroad's defense: a drawbridge would cost $2,000,000; its operation...
...fashion of the day to devise novel settings for old mysteries, and the "Subway Express", now in production at the Hollis Theatre, is one of the latest examples to remove the melodrama from the more conventional English manor house, or, as was the height of the mode a season or so ago, the New York night club...