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...have a drink and watching him take the bottle. We thought UNO wanted about 300 acres." Cried J. David Finger, operator of a flying school at Westchester Airport: "I got chased out of Floyd Bennett Field when the Navy took over. I got chased out of Idlewild when LaGuardia wanted it. If I get chased out of here I swear I'll go to Mexico." A dubious housewife, who guessed UNO wouldn't want her 100-year-old house, asked: "If I stay here could I keep on being an American citizen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Those Americans! | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

...roaring oldtime dance halls there are night clubs and roadhouses nowadays, built up around Reno to accommodate the transient (divorce-seeking) trade. Discreet enough to be considered proper for the University of Nevada's young people, these places bear such idyllic names as "The Willows" and "Idlewild,'' though at a place called Lawton's Springs there is sometimes heard an echo of "the West that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Silver Tradition | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...from Boston. Captain Dodge has been forbidden by the doctor to take part in the meet. If he is allowed to go to Philadelphia at all, he will be merely a spectator: that he will run is out of the question. While away the team will stay at the Idlewild Hotel, Media, Pa., just outside of Philadelphia. The squad will return immediately, arriving in Cambridge Sunday morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Track Team Leaves for Philadelphia | 5/28/1908 | See Source »

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