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With their new riches, the Trapps "bought a view" in Vermont. A few weeks after they moved in, the old farmhouse came down in a windstorm. They have rebuilt it into a handsome, 20-room Tyrolean manor house. In winter, while the family is on concert tour, the house will be used as a hostelry for skiers...
...thing in evolution, retains the shrunken vestiges of once-vital organs which no longer serve much real purpose, and only cause trouble if they try to. Take for example, in 20th Century U.S. civilization, the father of a bride. Take specifically Mr. Stanley Banks of 24 Maple Drive, Fairview Manor, a vestigial organ in a perfect state of preservation...
...Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, was sold to a real-estate agent who intends to break up its interior into apartments. Millions of moviegoers had seen its white-marble staircase as part of a Southern plantation house in Gone With the Wind, and as part of an English manor in Rebecca...
Quibbling Oldsters. Aubrey loved the medieval manor house, half dwelling, half barnyard, where the cackling and lowing of livestock were "then thought not . . . ill musique." But, unlike most antiquarians, he never allowed nostalgia to blind him to the bad aspects of the good old days: "The conversation and habits of those times were as starcht as their bands and square beards; and gravity was then taken for wisdom. The doctors in those days were but old boys, when quibbles past for wit even in their sermons...
...Whole blocks of shanties were burned to the ground; in one house, seven out of a family of eleven died in the flames. Fleeing Indians were struck down in the streets as they tried to escape. Seven were flung bodily from a railroad train. From the settlement at Cato Manor, Indian women & children by the hundreds fled shrieking into the tropical bush, while others were pulled from their homes to be beaten and raped...