Word: gardener
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...announcement comes exactly one year after the Crimson revealed that the lot--13,000 sq. ft. of choice Cambridge property known to students as the "garden" of the exclusive Fly Club--is actually owned by Harvard, which has paid over $50,000 in taxes on the property since buying it from the Fly in December...
...only bought property in Miss Marple's home village of St. Mary Mead. Indeed, the biggest mystery about Sleeping Murder is the author's choice of setting. Sturdy though she is, Miss Marple seems off balance in Dillmouth, away from her cowslip wine, her knitting, her garden and especially her friends...
...early books, like The Murder at the Vicarage, Miss Marple was a snoop as well as a sleuth, "the worst old cat in the village." Her famous garden was a smokescreen, and her fondness for observing birds through powerful glasses could be turned to other purposes. As time passed, Dr. Haydock had to tell Miss Marple gently that gardening was making her rheumatism worse. She became quieter and less flighty. But her methods of detection were always the same. Where Poirot used his "little gray cells," Jane Marple extrapolated from her knowledge of St. Mary Mead. A swindler? She remembers...
...Miss Marple once told her friend Elspeth McGillicuddy during a horticultural discussion, "Peonies are unaccountable. Either they do- or they don't do. But if they do establish themselves, they are with you for life." The old spinster apparently became like the peonies in her garden...
...figure cutting across the ice at Madison Square Garden had hardly changed since the Winter Olympics in 1968. After gliding off from Grenoble with a gold medal for figure skating, Peggy Fleming had spent eight years on the ice-show circuit, married a dermatologist and, by last week, decided to put her career into the deep freeze temporarily. The reason: her first child, due in January. "We wanted to have a baby for a long time, but it just didn't happen," said Fleming, 28. "I decided to go back to work and start thinking about other things. Sure...