Word: gardenful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shacks lives the Widow Kolesar, a dumpy little Slav who chars for her living and fills her four children's bellies with vegetables from their scrawny "garden." Her "old man" was killed while working on the railroad. Nearby lives the Klementovich family. Mother Klementovich is virtually a widow; her "old man" is serving a two-year term in jail for beating her. She works in the factory, tends chickens, takes in a boarder. There are four little Klementoviches...
...small institute of landscape architecture sponsored by the Garden Club of Lake Forest, has grown a Foundation for Architecture and Landscape Architecture. The late Edward Lamed Ryerson. steel & iron man, left money for the movement. Active as officers are Walter Stanton Brewster (broker), Tiffany Blake (Chicago Tribune editorial writer), Alfred E. Hamill (Hathaway & Co., paper), Mrs. John E. Geary (North Shore clubwoman). Director is Stanley Hart White, associate professor of landscape architecture at the University of Illinois. Students are picked yearly from the architectural schools of five Midwestern institutions-Iowa State College, the universities of Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, and Armour...
Last fortnight's Foundation news was as stimulating to old-established imaginations as it probably will be hard to "sell" to the kind of imaginations it aimed to benefit: Condé Nast, eastern smartchart publisher (House & Garden, Vogue, Vanity Fair) promised the Foundation $2,500 per year for three years for unique traveling fellow-ships-unique because all the traveling will be done, not among European chalets, chateaux and cathedrals, but in the U. S. among barns, grain-elevators, oil-cracking plants...
...maker Michael Arlen (Dikran Kouyoumdjian) will find no traces of that young man's simpering suavity in this sombre, compact story. You see how the bridegroom's mother and sister plot to get rid of the girl, first by such witchcrafts as burying a crow in the garden, later by murder. Best shot: Barbara Matatian's realization, as she comes into her husband's house for the last time, that something dangerous, terrible, something she cannot see, is waiting for her in the shadows beyond the door...
...Arthur Conan Doyle was sitting in his garden near Southampton, England, with his family (wife, two sons, a daughter), when flames suddenly burst from the roof of his house. For an hour, local firemen, 100 villagers and the Doyles labored to save books and manuscripts. An old part of the house was consumed, a new addition saved. No Sherlock Holmes was needed to detect the cause: a spark on the old dry roof...