Word: gardenful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dean at Harvard, Bill Nichols first looked for success as a pressagent for the late Sam Insull. When Insull's utilities empire collapsed in 1932, Nichols switched painlessly to a Harvard publicity job and then to TVA. In 1937 he became editor of Sunset, a Pacific Coast house-&-garden monthly; in 1943 he became editor of This Week, only four years after joining the staff of its founding editor, the late Mrs. William Brown ("Missy") Meloney. Both money-losers were out of the red a year after he took them over...
...these 37 points, 23 went through the strings against Dartmouth at the Garden right before the Christmas vacation. Since then, Prior has cooled off and may not start when the Crimson opens post-exam activity against Army at West Point Wednesday...
They find New England particularly attractive because the area is mostly under cultivation, and there is nothing a marmot likes better than grade A garden vegetables. A definite propensity for red clever and celery has created a certain degree of bad feeling between woodchucks and Now England farmers...
Mikkola expects to have 18 men sufficiently recovered from the stress and strain of exams to participate in the B.A.A. Games at Boston Garden...
...would have done the Medici proud. At one affair, 50 gondoliers stood like statues along a winding stairway, 600 guests frolicked in fancy-dress costumes provided by Porter, and floodlights played on tightrope walkers overhead. Once Sergei Diaghilev brought his ballet company to dance Les Sylphides at a Porter garden party. Diaghilev insisted on a few props: fireworks, a 50-foot statue of Venus (which was hauled through the canals by two barges and set up in the garden), and 20,000 candles to adorn the trees. Looking things over before the party began, Diaghilev decided that he would need...