Word: lawn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jitteriness of the stockmarket. President Roosevelt nodded emphatically. Feelings were jittery everywhere and rightly so, he said, not only in financial circles but in homes all over the world and in every democratic government. Same afternoon, the President addressed 200 members of the Roosevelt Home Town Club on the lawn of his tenant Moses Smith, who founded the club. Said he: "World conditions are no better than they seem to be to those of us who read the newspapers. They are pretty serious. . . . It requires some planning to keep...
...call at the Hudson River State Hospital for the insane, the President proved himself a less gloomy visitor than his own guests. He told a class of graduating nurses what had happened when he visited a similar institution at Ogdensburg, N. Y. An old man mowing the lawn, said the President, "took off his hat very politely. After I had passed, I heard the family, who were looking back, roar with laughter. I turned and there was the old gent thumbing his nose at me." While the nurses chuckled, the President gave a demonstration of the gesture...
...workers live in frame houses, built against the hillside. Two miles outside Weirton, in dramatic proximity to the inevitable squalor of U. S. industrial life, stands "The Lodge," the comfortable, greystone mansion of Weirton's founder, Ernest Tener Weir, its most conspicuous feature a swimming pool in the lawn. Seven miles away from Weirton stands the ivy-covered courthouse of New Cumberland, W. Va., which supplies Weirton with whatever it has in the way of municipal authority outside of uniformed Weirton Company police. Last week, both the Lodge and the courthouse made news of different sorts...
News from the Lodge concerned the marriage of Miss Margaret Manson Weir, daughter of Mrs. David Manson Weir of Steubenville, Ohio, niece of Ernest Tener Weir, to William Prescott Bonbright II, son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Bonbright of Grosse Point, Mich. Under the trees on the front lawn E. T. Weir gave away his niece, a pretty girl gowned in white marquisette, with French orange blossoms around her waist, carrying a white prayer book and a spray of white orchids. After a reception and dinner, bride and bridegroom set off to spend their honeymoon at Uncle Weir...
...stuffed birds, shells and European art acquired in Dresden and Paris on his one trip abroad. Ten years later his widow gave the treasures and the gallery to the city of Sacramento, which later acquired the mansion and for 50 years faithfully mowed the grass on the Crocker lawn. Curator of the gallery during all that time was an easy-going character named William Franklin Jackson, who let old Judge Crocker's paintings gather dust while he painted California landscapes...