Word: gardenful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Good "Papa" Joffre was snoring. He has a touch of water on the knee, nowadays, and he tires easily. Therefore after a morning stroll in his Paris garden last week the beloved old Marshal climbed stiffly and painfully upstairs, sank with relief into a large armchair, dozed off and soon was snoring...
...Senator agrees with Mr. Grundy that Prosperity can flourish and blossom only in the garden of Protection behind a high tariff wall. To cultivate that garden, to keep its wall in good repair Utah's senator is prepared to give his all. With dutiful zeal he pleads for high duties on sugar and wool. With the political zeal of a stalwart Republican he demands protection for?
...William Francis Carey, new head of the oldtime Garden, newcomers will find no sleeping adversary. He is 50, a bronzed six-footer. He was born a farmer's son near Hoosick Falls, N. Y., earned $11 with his own cabbage patch while still very young and struck out for the West with that $11 as his capital. He learned rail road construction in the Colorado camps...
...also has signed an agreement to make the largest airport in the world on the Jersey meadows opposite New York. He has always been interested in sports but was drawn into the fight game by Rickard, who picked him as the man to build the new Madison Square Garden when the old one had to be abandoned. He is a millionaire. If he can promote fights the way the late Rickard could, he will be a millionaire again...
...journeyed. Swiftly he contracted pneumonia. And, despite depth bombs charged with quinine, and gallons of legally prescribed liquor, he died. Notable is the fact that he died most opportunely; in time to burst into print just before the circus's splendiferous opening in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Thus did Albert serve his owners even in death...