Word: gardenful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...carry on these activities, the Biology Department and the two Institutes of Botany have acres of facilities all over North America, including an Arboretum in Jamaica Plain, a garden in Cuba, a forest in Petersham, and a concrete tank in Woods Hole full of diatoms, molluses, and sea water. But the most amazing place of all is the 400-room laboratory on Divinity Avenue that carries a two-foot cucumber
...Paris, Princess Margaret, fun-loving, 18-year-old younger daughter of Britain's King George VI, did the galleries, appeared circumspectly at a nightclub, danced until 2:30 a.m. at an embassy ball, and slipped through a garden gate to escape a carload of photographers determined to pursue her on a drive into the country. Frenchmen said of her: "Qu'elle est belle!" Reporters noted with approval that in nine public appearances she had worn nine different costumes. At the airport last week, when it was all over, Margaret murmured politely to her hosts...
Whatever Elizabeth did, Margaret followed in her own unpredictable way. When Elizabeth set out a neat garden of daffodils and tulips, Margaret planted rows of potatoes and pulled them all up to see how they were doing. While Elizabeth fondled her ponies and puppies, Margaret made pets of a salamander and a speckled toad. When Elizabeth won a certificate for lifesaving, Margaret had her day: she heaved her sister's pet Corgi into the pond on the day of a Buckingham Palace garden party and dived in after him, triumphant and heroic in her best party dress...
Taking his red-slippered ease in the garden of his Riviera villa last week, the frail, friendly painter thought he might do some more portraits: "Someone wants me to try a self-portrait and I've been putting it off and off. Now I rather think I'd like to have a go at it." Meanwhile he supposed he would go on filling his days with sketches of the surrounding landscape, and escorting his pretty wife to the Casino at Monte Carlo now and then in the evenings, for a spot of gambling...
Last week, music-lovers drifted leisurely through the dark green marble-pillared rotunda toward the glass-ceilinged East Garden Court for the fifth and final concert of Dick Bales's annual American Music Festival...