Word: gardenful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dresses neatly and simply-black hat, oldtime wash necktie (or a hook-on bow), celluloid collar. His automobile is a 1927 Studebaker. He does not drive it. Neither does he drive golf or tennis balls. He chews tobacco, spits the juice. He plays solitaire, reads Shakespeare, keeps a garden farm near Granite Falls, Minn. A widower, he has a daughter named Laura, who drives the Studebaker and keeps the house. Last week, he announced her engagement to Carl Lomen, founder and dominator of the Alaskan reindeer industry...
...meeting be held, therefore, in Madison Square Garden, or other suitable, very large hall, with a division of the sittings-say, to the number of 3,000 for our Calvary members and friends, and the same number for, say, the St. Patrick's Cathedral congregation and your friends-the other 20,000 sittings to be equally divided between Democratic and Republican headquarters for distribution...
...chain of room keys which belonged in a buffet drawer. Upstairs, in the bedrooms, furniture had been overturned and broken, closets and bureau drawers had been ransacked. Yet the housekeeper and six servants remembered hearing no unusual noises that night. No footprints were found in the garden. Two private watchmen in the street saw no intruder enter the house. Art objects and furnishings were missing, but jewels had not been disturbed...
Last week the tragic Other Grandmama was reported to spend most of her days reclining and dozing in her small, sunny Florentine garden and most of her evenings with a faithful lady-in-waiting who reads and rereads the New Testament...
...Bernard Shaw, has never set foot in the U. S. and swears that he never will. Yet, last week, his face was seen and his voice was heard in Manhattan. The Movietone of the firm of William Fox accomplished the trick. Mr. Shaw was caught walking idly in his garden. Suddenly he stopped, faun-like, and looked into the camera as if it were just a jolly surprise. Then, with his beard close to the camera, he began to talk and confess to the public what a genial and gentle old fellow he really is. He made faces, explaining that...