Word: gardens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sins, and she loves the gooey drippings of intimate confidences from flesh-bedeviled souls like Marjorie. About her person she dabs the odor of sanctity as if it were the latest Parisian perfume. But as she prattles of sin and piety in the quiet of Arthur Winner's garden, her innuendoes loose the first of the novel's rockslides of revelation. On the very day of his first wife's death, this pillar of respectability, this devotee of reason, Arthur Winner, had embarked on an adulterous affair with Marjorie Penrose, wife of his crippled friend. In flashback...
...Cleaning the garden, growing vegetables and heating the bath-they are all my jobs. I hand my pay envelope to my wife without opening it. She drinks and smokes, but I do neither. I feel that I am a symbol of the principle of the equality of the sexes...
HUGE FARM AREA will be created along Colorado River in southwestern Arizona, where Real Estateman Stanley W. Barton made deal with Interior Department to transform 67,000 parched acres of Indian reservation into desert garden. In history's biggest lease of Indian lands for agricultural development, Barton will spend about $28 million to complete an irrigating system, also develop industrial and residential sites. Reservation's 1,400 Indians will get jobs, and much improved land will revert to them in 20 to 25 years...
PORTABLE TV SETS are dangerous when used in damp places, e.g., bathroom, laundry, basement, garden or poolside, warns National Safety Council. As a result of accidental electrocution of Chicago boy by portable TV set, General Electric Co. dealers henceforth will make safety check without charge of any G.E. portable bought by their customers...
...Moore is the first native-born British sculptor ever to achieve so exalted an international reputation.* To his white-walled, red-roofed house on the outskirts of Much Hadham in Hertfordshire, about 30 miles north of London, come visitors of all nations on pilgrimage. They are led down a garden path past herbaceous borders and neat rows of vegetables to emerge suddenly in an open field. Against this lush background stand some weather-beaten perennials (opposite), Moore's abstractions, scooped-out females, spatulate King and Queen, draped Reclining Figure...