Word: groves
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story. The Canon of Gold was the meeting place of one of the most oddly assorted groups of characters in all fictional Arizona. There the two obtrusively quaint old "pardners," Thad Grove and Bob Hill, kept house with their adopted child, Marta Hillgrove, found in somebody or other's cabbage-patch in the past, and at the time the story opens just budding into radiant womanhood. There also lived the foul Lizard, Villain Number One ?and Saint Jimmy, who was just Tiny Tim grown up and wild about doing good to everybody. There also came Hugh Edwards?...
...party got off the Special, and the President and Mrs. Harding, with the Governors of Washington and Oregon, drove in an old Concord stage coach. Mrs. Harding, who could not see the crowd well enough, mounted to the driver's seat. In a j pine grove the party reviewed a pageant of Indians and pioneers - men with their trousers tucked in high boots, soldiers of half a century ago, representations of John Jacob Astor, General Fremont, Kit Carson, Buffalo Bill and others. To add to the local color there were log cabins, specially built for the occasion...
Experiments at the Spring Grove Hospital, Baltimore, under William Van der Wall, Dutch musician and sociologist, and at the New York Nursery and Child's Hospital, under Dr. Harold C. Cox, give promise of excellent effects on patients through " musical therapy." Phonographs, vocal and instrumental music improved the morale and the physical condition of mothers and sick children, calmed the violently insane, and stimulated melancholic cases. Music is becoming recognized as a definite adjunct of psychiatry...
...next point on the itinerary is the Yosemite National Park, where the party will be conducted to the Upper and Lower Yosemite Fall, the highest cascade in the world. At the Sequoia Park the travelers will pass through the grove of giant trees and from there will proceed to the Grand Canyon and the Mesa Verde National Park, to inspect the cliff dwellings...
...Blooming Grove that Warren Harding received his first education. The house where he was born, though dilapidated, still stands. When the President returns to his boyhood scene he is expected to build a modern bungalow and lay out a private golf course. Then, in the leisure of his retirement, he will play and write...