Word: gardenful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prize, an engraved silver cup, was given to the student submitting the best set of plans for the roof garden of a hospital. The winning drawings are now on exhibition at the Old Fogg Museum...
Finally, a funeral ceremony was held; Rickard was praised, sung over, paraded through the streets and put into the ground, at Woodlawn Cemetery near Manhattan. Two nights later, in the exact centre of Madison Square Garden, there was a prizefight and a ceremony. The ceremony was simple: Jack Dempsey climbed through the ropes; the announcer, red-faced Joe Humphreys, made a gesture; the lights went down; a bugler played taps. Presently the lights went on and Jimmy McLarnin, of Vancouver, Wash., beat Joe Glick, Brooklyn tailor...
...body of Tex Rickard was laid in the exact centre of Madison Square Garden, the arena which he built, enclosed in a glass-topped coffin, through which 35,000 members of the migratory public peered at his face?waxed to a semblance of life...
...insure financial security. It seemed likely that whoever was elected president of this, would inherit the responsibilities, if not necessarily the talents, of Tex Richard. A much discussed candidate was Vice President William F. Carey, Wall Street contracting engineer, builder of the new Manhattan and Boston Madison Square Gardens, onetime Rickard Partner in Paraguayan cattle-ranchholdings. Jack Dempsey refused to consider it officially; before any announcement had been made by the Garden Corporation, William F. Carey entrained with Prizefighter Dempsey for Boston and persuaded Jack Sharkey, who had lapsed into his habitual recalcitrance, to sign papers for the Stribling fight...
Playing the last game before the mid-year examinations period, the University hockey team will face a strong but little tried Boston Athletic Association six at 8.30 o'clock tonight in the new Boston Garden...