Word: boxwood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since his court-martial, he has been living on his private estate "Boxwood," at Middleburg, Va., on the east slope of the Blue Ridge Mountains and not far west of Washington. Nominally he goes in for farming and horse & stock raising. While doing that and making frequent trips to Europe and Asia he has kept up his bombardment of the Government's air program. At first his attacks were heavy barrages of magazine articles and pamphlets. Lately he has directed only a desultory fire...
...Pont de Nemours & Co., last week surveyed the completion of one of the most elaborate U. S, open-air theatres. On a slope of his garden at Longwood, Pa., there were turf terrace seats on which 1,200 people might sit; below these a stage winged and backed by boxwood bushes. Under the stage there were dressing rooms, lounging rooms, large-sized bathrooms. In front of the stage, fountains were ready to lift a shining silver curtain of water...