Word: lawn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...largest. A portrait of the author of In Memoriam and a volume of his verse were arranged, as usual, nearby. In a "very beautiful but not overly expensive casket" purchased by the late star's mother, Mrs. Jean Bello, Miss Harlow's remains were taken to Forest Lawn Memorial Park's Wee Kirk o' the Heather, a nondenominational shrine in the nation's most extraordinary cemetery, which has become, in the last decade, the Valhalla of the cinema business...
...majority lively young things who spend their days at typewriters or store counters, pretty as debutantes are not. They had the time of their lives in their swankiest $11.98 copies of Paris models, dancing in the President's parlor, strolling on the President's south lawn between strings of Japanese lanterns, congregating in the lobby around the table where tall glasses of cold beer were poured all evening long...
...that he was putting his car in the garage when he saw a man standing in the door, pointing a shotgun at him. "Hey, Norton, I want to talk to you," Mr. Norton said the man said. He dodged behind his car, saw his assailant run off across the lawn. A maid employed in a neighboring home confirmed Mr. Norton's story that an armed prowler had fled in an automobile. ''There is no question in, my mind," cried old Mr. Norton. "I know Tom Elder as well as I know a member of my own family...
...Pennsylvania House of Representatives, Democrat Leo V. Tumelty of Philadelphia introduced a resolution to "remove or rip the statue of Boies Penrose from the lawn of the Capitol and offer it to either Maine or Vermont." The memorial to Pennsylvania's late Republican Boss, declared he, "appears to be sneering...
Although the picture is placed near two fine Gainsboroughs and a portrait by Copley, yet it attracts much attention. The painting shows a most inviting scene, a well bred family party on their lawn by the river at twilight. As they look over a smooth bowling green towards some woods and a castle tower in the distance with the high evening sky above them, there is a sense of peace and comfort which pervades...