Word: gardenful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Town & Country. From 48th to 52nd Streets, prizefight and hockey fans were in temporary retreat before the advancing wave of high society which was bravely turned out in sables and silk hats, diamonds and décolletages. The 61st annual National Horse Show was on in Madison Square Garden...
Their youngest teammate, 18-year-old Lieut. Joaquin D'Harcourt had yet to win an individual victory at the Garden. His chance came in the jump-off for the International Military Special Challenge Trophy, when two Chileans faulted. That left only four competitors for the trophy-all members of the Mexican team. One by one the three veteran riders started on the course, then pulled their horses up sharply for a refusal so that young Lieut. D'Harcourt would be sure to bag his first Garden trophy...
...night last fall during a performance in Covent Garden, Margot slipped and pulled a tendon in her ankle. With her leg in a cast, she could not dance again for three months, though she was scheduled to open soon in Ashton's Cinderella, which she had rehearsed for six months. It was the first time anyone had even seen her crushed. Unable to endure London without dancing, she went to Paris. Moira Shearer danced Cinderella in her place...
Miriam (Hebrew for Mary) is a gentle, devout girl whose life has been spent in the peaceful town of Nazareth, feeding the animals, drawing the water for the family, tending the vegetable garden, pressing oil for the lamps, learning how to pound spices. Wild animals are tame in her presence; the fawn and the doe approach her fearlessly. And, like many a daughter in Israel, she dreams of one day bearing the child who will grow up to be the King-Messiah...
...Messiahship (in a miraculous answer to prayer at 13), Miriam's life becomes a struggle between motherly joy and motherly foreboding. After the miracle of the wine at the wedding in Cana, she loses sight of him until just before the end. Asch brings her into the Garden of Gethsemane to eavesdrop on the arrest, a few pages further has her climb to where the cross stands on Golgotha...