Word: gardens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...millionaire in a remarkably successful business career (Darling Stores Corp., a women's wear chain with 140 stores in 27 states). He was also a successful Kentucky horse breeder (in 1955 his Prince John won a record-breaking purse of $157,918.50 at New Jersey's Garden State Park). Semiretired, at 57, he decided this year that he would like to serve in a Government post. "I just wanted to do some good," he explained last week. "I didn't ask to be an ambassador." Straightforwardly, Gluck wrote four Republican Senators: New York's Irving Ives...
...into one of the most fashionable addresses in Paris. The square, with its colonnade, is actually a series of joined houses; by royal decree the façades were kept similar. Built of brick and stone, it became a model for Inigo Jones when he came to design Covent Garden, London's first square in the Italian manner...
Actually, this fantasy-comedy is a mammoth pentateuch in eight acts, requiring three evenings for an uncut performance. Its scope is epitomized in the uniquely blatant way it violates the classical "unity of time;" it starts at the fall of Man in the Garden of Eden and ends 30,000 years from...
...manifold forms of this one creature. First thing every morning, she must know just where the wind lay and the precise degree of humidity; around her bed were "a barometer, an outdoor thermometer . . . compasses . . . watches, chronometers, binoculars and magnifying glasses." After breakfast she would rush out into her garden like a starved animal. On visiting someone else's garden, she often "separated the sepals of flowers . . . smelled them . . . crumpled the leaves, chewed them, licked the poisonous berries and the deadly mushrooms . . . attracted bees and wasps, letting them alight on her hands and scratching their backs. 'They like that...
Officials emphasized that free tickets must be obtained in advance by calling in person or sending a selfaddressed letter to the Observatory, at 60 Garden St. Since only 100 of the 245 tickets are left, students are urged to apply soon. Three tickets may be obtained per request. The program will begin...