Word: gardenful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John D. Rockefeller Jr., philanthropist: "Moving men all last week carried furniture into the new 166-suite Thomas Garden Apartment that I have financed cheaply in lower Bronx, New York City. The goods belonged to bricklayers, electricians, policemen, streetcar men, firemen, bookkeepers, teachers, librarians and like members of the thrifty and shifted classes, for I have provided rooms at rents they can afford. Each tenant pays down $1,000 to $1,700 cash, and thereafter $64 to $100 monthly. Eventually he will own his apartment outright. All this I have made possible by financing the construction at exceedingly low interest...
Last week saw the second installment of Tex Rickard's heavyweight boxing elimination contest, being intermittently staged in Madison Square Garden in Manhattan. (TIME, Feb. 21) One Paolino Uzcudun, Spaniard, unofficial champion of several European precincts, climbed into the ring with one Knute Hansen,* semi-ferocious great Dane. At the end of ten mildly bloody rounds Uzcudun's hand was held aloft by the referee in token of victory. The small crowd was amused but unimpressed; predicted an early cropper for Paolino...
...temple to speak. The Bible, they said, forbids women's appearance in the pulpit. Fearless Preacher Straton permitted her to proceed, and she gave a sermon based so fundamentally upon the Ark of the Covenant that it soothed the hearts of the reproachful ones. But later in Madison Square Garden she was charged by atheists with violating the child labor laws by preaching for money...
Last week the Westminster Kennel Club held its 51st annual show in Madison Square Garden. Two thousand aristocrats of dogdom gathered in friendly competition. Days passed, various breeds were judged, proud owners received awards. On Saturday afternoon all prizes save one had been dispensed. The best animal, regardless of class or breed, was still to be selected...
...speeches of of the characters themselves, and has not resorted to tedious obiter dicta. Futhermore, she has decorated their halting or dissembling utterances with the impressionistic detail that filled their minds at the time,--the flowers on the table, a wide sweep of countryside, the pattern of a garden path, the set of a face; and by taking appropriate moments to repeat or contrast these details has created a series of intimate pictures and a minor symbolism running throughout the book. At their highest, the pictures do justice to the emotional relationships of the characters...