Word: lawn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quiet little conversation, apparently the talk of two close friends. They had come out of the White House, gotten into step with each other and walked down the lawn, where Mr. President had halted, turned and with a sweep of his arm indicated what a really fine place to live the White House...
...From the publisher's standpoint, it won the campaign. "Fraternal" means that The Fellowship Forum is the organ of the Ku Klux Klan and all those who believe that the Pope and Al Smith want to hang 100% Protestant-American babies from the trees on the White House lawn. The Fellowship Forum boasts that its "million readers are a unit against Al Smith because he is wet and they are ardent prohibitionists, but were he dry, most of them would oppose him on religious grounds...
Cables flashed. Mr. William Randolph Hearst called personally on President Calvin Coolidge. The President was understood to have opined that Mr. Koran's case came solely within the jurisdiction of the French courts. To reporters gathered on the White House lawn Publisher Hearst said: "The French authorities are behaving like spoiled children. . . . Why should they make this ridiculous fuss about the publication of their secret agreement with Great Britain, unless there is something in it that they are ashamed...
Sprinkles with rosey light, the dewey lawn...
Tilden was not invited to participate in the East-West matches. Fretted, Friend Hunter refused to play, said a Tildenless tournament was "not representative." Said P. Schuyler Van Bloem, vice president of the Eastern Lawn Tennis Association: "It would be unsportsmanlike to use a player against whom charges are pending." Thus the player-writer rule rapped the fingers of Tilden. Ready commentators said Tilden will play no more tennis, will go into vaudeville. The first prediction was wrong; Tilden accepted the bid to play in the Newport Casino tournament, on whose cup he has two legs. The other prediction...