Word: backyard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hoerger who justified headlines last week must have been a profound disappointment to her mother, who has reared her girls as if they were guppies. As soon as her children were three months old, she tossed them into the water. All three could swim before they could walk. The backyard of the Hoerger home at Miami Beach is a swimming pool. The front yard is the Atlantic Ocean. When not swimming at home, Hoergers swim in more de luxe surroundings, the famed Miami Biltmore pool, where Mrs. Hoerger is swimming instructor. Their father, Fred Hoerger, went to Miami Beach...
When interviewers lately sought out Mrs. Charles E. Williams in her modest apartment over a backyard garage in a suburb of Birmingham, Ala., her first remark about her son, Assistant Federal Relief Administrator Aubrey Willis Williams, was: "He's a self-made...
...each subsidiary dominated its field strategically. The Pacific Coast was, and is, ruled by Standard of California, the Midwest by Standard of Indiana, New England and the Atlantic Seaboard by Standard of New York and Standard of New Jersey. Each agreed to keep out of the other's backyard. The backyards became less clearly defined when huge, puissant Standard Oil of New Jersey chafed under restrictions limiting its domestic retail market while non-Rockefeller competitors like Texaco and British-controlled Shell could rove the whole union. In 1929 President Walter C. Teagle stepped out of bounds to acquire...
Said he, concerning the burials: "You would do the same thing yourself if there wasn't any money to have it done. There are hundreds of these backyard graves on countryside places around here. I marked the graves with nice-colored stones...
...Avenue of Flags elderly matrons fought like savages for bits of bunting. For their backyard gardens housewives stripped the Horticultural Building of rare plants and flowers, some worth as much as $200 each. Roving bands of youths stormed the booths of concessionaires. A 13-year-old boy was caught by police lugging off two huge bones of a prehistoric monster, to feed to his dog. Recurring showers of bottles from the 64-story Skyride Tower grew so alarming that the elevators were finally stopped. Dancing feet stomped into ruin landscaped lawns. Into Lake Michigan went benches and tables, and when...