Word: groves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strong at their National Jamboree in Washington (TIME, July 12), spent their happiest hours swapping horned toads, pickled scorpions, live hoot owls-everything but puppy dog tails. The first international encampment in the U. S. of Girl Scouts and Girl Guides -only 101 strong-convened last week in a grove near Briarcliff Manor, about 35 miles north of Manhattan, but again the primeval urge made itself felt. Their barter, however, consisted of more appropriate articles, cotton bolls from South Carolina, scarves, tubes of powdered iron ore from Minnesota. Scout Sally Page of El Paso appeared with trade goods consisting...
...live in a new world,' he said. 'St. Bernards are killing little girls. Books, or what pass for books, are being photographed on microfilm. There is a cemetery I want to see,' he continued, 'a grove where ancient trees shelter the graves and throw their umbrage on the imponderable dead. The branches of these trees, my dear young man, are alive with loudspeakers. I believe Upper Montclair is the place. That is one reason for my departure-I have certain macabre pilgrimages to make, while the lustiness is still in my bones...
...Yale's favorite taproom where it is traditionally sung, has echoed the old-time Whiffenpoof Song, Yale's Rudy Vallee croons it to radio millions in an arrangement of his own. It rang last week as far away as the primeval redwoods of California's Bohemian Grove, where the annual Jinks of the Bohemian Club were in progress. It also rang in a Manhattan court, where G. Schirmer, Inc. and Miller Music, Inc. were disputing which had the publication rights...
Elitch's Gardens is the great-grand-father of all U. S. summer stock corn-panies. In 1890 a sentimental showman named John Elitch established in a grove of big cottonwoods outside Denver a combination zoo, amusement park and botanical garden. Main attraction was a theatre where vaudeville was performed. Julia Marlowe, Nat Goodwin and Phineas T. Barnum were on hand to open Elitch's Gardens, and Eugene Field was there to report it for the Denver Republican. The place has been a repository of big names ever since. After John Elitch's death...
This man was born "about 1864" in a cabin near Diamond Grove, Mo. His parents were slaves, owned by Moses Carver, who gave the pickaninny his own surname and christened him George Washington. One night the baby and his mother were stolen by raiders. The mother was never heard of again but agents of Moses Carver found the baby and got him back by swapping a race horse. In childhood George Washington Carver mastered every word in his spelling book. Finding himself a free but penniless orphan, he got what schooling he could in Missouri, Kansas and Iowa, supporting himself...