Word: forest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lake Forest, Ill., is the Newport, the Pass Christian, the Sewickley, the Pasadena, the Chevy Chase, the Brookline. the Glen Cove, the Haverford, of the Midwest. The socially-eligible, serious-minded Mayor of Lake Forest is Albert B. Dick Jr., whose father makes mimeograph machines and whose alarming younger brother writes poetry. Lately, Mayor Dick had a problem to solve...
...socially-equal fellow townsmen, Van Wagenen Ailing, became hard up. Lake Forest taxes were so high that Mr. Ailing felt the need of subdividing his estate for homesites. Mr. Alling's across-the-road neighbor, one Benjamin Franklin Affleck, heard of this and telegraphed: "Such concentration of housing and population is entirely contrary to the general scheme of things in that part of Lake Forest. . . . We left Winnetka [modest Chicago suburb regarded by some as a stepping-stone to Lake Forest, by others as a model community] because of numerous small houses built in our neighborhood...
Mayor Dick of Lake Forest tactfully turned the discussion into one of regional planning and asked Realtor Ailing to submit plans of his new subdivision, his "millionairea" as the Chicago Tribune called...
...Harlan Miller, pet-loving Second Secretary of the U. S. Embassy at Paris, brought into Manhattan last week from the liner Paris his wife & pets: 40 fantail pigeons, 18 Belgian hares, two Mandingo parrots, a Belgian police dog, and a Black Forest (German)) cuckoo...
...said that forest creatures when alarmed "freeze" where they are, and move no muscle till danger is past. Editor Wickizer, lacking protective coloring, hastily promised not to print "anything of a sarcastic or critical nature that would not be for the best interest of the University and the Associated Students", adding, "henceforth we pledge ourselves to be the submissive voice of every student leader and ready to carry out the wishes of every faculty member...