Word: dooryard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...address was broadcast by loudspeaker to overflow crowds that thronged the Yard, most standing in silent homage. Dean Sperry concluded with the quotation of Walt Whitman's elegy to President Lincoln, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed...
Over the bright new stone and whitewash museum that stood at the other end of the dooryard they brooded like a couple of aging hens over a porcelain egg. Grumbled George: "Those buildings they're putting up aren't adequate. Candidly I never saw a carriage shed anywhere like those out there. That's just an architect's imagination, that is." Said Brother Henry philosophically: "Well, we want these things to be where people can see and study them." Descended from a long line of Pennsylvania Dutch, they were brought up in a well...
...World War II, and under its first real gunfire in Congress, with his idealistic world in realistic ruins, he stands at the pinnacle of his career. The most conservative member of the Roosevelt Cabinet of New Dealers, he is its best-loved. He seems meek, but the Department dooryard is figuratively heaped with the bones of bolder, shaggier men who have tried to elbow him to one side...