Word: gardenful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hills decorated in French & Italian styles. Married to Walter Morosco, son of famed Oliver Morosco, she collects jewels, is said to own the biggest existing cabuchon ruby, reads with a magnifying glass the complete works of Poet Alfred Noyes in an edition one inch square, has a prize lily garden, and plays golf badly. Famed for her roles in Outcast, Prisoners, Six Days, she sailed for Europe last week for her "first vacation in five years...
Last week William Francis Carey was elected to the presidency of Madison Square Garden Corp., the position left vacant by Rickard. When he announced, next day, that he had leased for outdoor bouts both the Polo Grounds and the Yankee Stadium, New York's big baseball parks, it appeared that the monopoly built up by Rickard was safe...
...financial success. The Dempsey-Fugazy firm will begin with a lightweight championship battle−Sammy Mandell, the title holder, probably against Ray Miller of Chicago−to be held in Detroit, June 6. The Messrs. Dempsey and Fugazy say they will build themselves a coliseum comparable to Madison Square Garden within a year...
...Black Crook. It was on Sept. 12, 1866, that The Black Crook entered Niblo's Garden in New York. Buxom young ladies appeared in tights which revealed not only their ankles but their hips. In those days people believed with Queen Victoria in the theory that women had no understanding whatever. Next day James Gordon Bennett's New York Herald commended the city to the fire and brimstone of Sodom and Gomorrah. Sunday after Sunday pulpits boomed denunciation. Soon at Niblo's Garden there was only standing room...
...Mary Garden is one of those celebrities who has reached for a fat check for endorsing Lucky Strike cigarets. Last week in Dallas, Tex., where she went to appear with the Chicago Civic Opera Company, she felt the need of a cigaret during a press interview. Six newsgatherers offered six brands of cigarets, including Lucky Strikes. Singer Garden reached for a Camel...