Word: lawn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Booth Tarkington-Not too modern town house, well-kept-up, trim lawn, hospitable porches comfortable servants' quarters...
...lawn before the Capitol: "I like grass. Now, if I only had a few sheep to put out there, I'd be happy...
Veterans. Larded in with the national play at Germantown were matches in the National Veterans' Lawn Tennis Championship. For the third year in succession, Dr. Philip B. Hawk, hardy Philadelphian, was winner. The other veteran finalist was Captain A. J. Gore, a Washingtonian of wide girth, who tired fast after a brave start. Score...
...portraits, comparable with the famous Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse (owned by Henry Huntington) and Nelly O'Brien (in the Wallace Collection, London). The painting was first exhibited at the Royal Academy of 1779, and depicts Lady Crosbie, then but 21 years old, charmingly posed on a lawn, elaborately gowned and coifed, with a landscape background...
...English Lawn Tennis Association is not opposed to .these exposures in the quiet privacy of five or ten thousand people around the courts at Wimbledon. It does object to circulation of the pictures, which " will bring the sport into disrepute" among the masses...