Word: gardens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their studies and have a better chance of success in their chosen fields if they forgot about Miss Autherine Lucy [Feb. 20] and opened their books to the assigned pages. All of them might make a stronger America if they would eat their eggs, leave the rocks in the garden, and direct their animosities toward the real threat of Communism...
...around him. His aristocratic toilet-a bath in olive oil and a dousing with detergent-had been completed at home. Great Danes are just too big to do all of their primping in public. But smaller breeds in the Westminster Kennel Club show at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last week turned the rank and echoing Garden cellar into a tonsorial riot. Handlers and owners worked over their charges like anxious mothers. Long hair was stripped and scissored, combed and brushed; paws were groomed. "Of course it's illegal," muttered one handler vigorously covering black smudges with cornstarch...
...proud toy-poodle owner, who also happens to be a hi-fi fan, tried to explain the phenomenon at the Garden last week: "This is one more sign of what you might call sophistication for the masses. The poodle is purely and simply a luxury dog: no suggestion of proletarian practicality; no good for hunting, at least not any more; no good for herding sheep; no good for tracking convicts. The American people are getting more of the good things in life all the time-things that used to belong to the aristocracy: sailboats, golf, good music. Why not poodles...
...varsity track team should find the competition in this afternoon's IC4A. Meet a bit stiffer than that which the Big Three offered on Wednesday. Villanova and Manhattan, co-favorites today in Madison Square Garden, are among those out of the varsity's class...
...secular tragedy told in the idiom of understatement (which Novelist Powell admits "has its own banality"); there is a pit beneath the parquet floor and the Old School Tie may become a garrote. It needs all his well-tended prose to keep the corpse of nihilism buried in the garden...