Word: lawn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...request of the deceased's mother. Under questioning, Mrs. Morris confessed that, on the advice of oldtime Cinemactress Lila Lee, she had burned a suicide note left by Reid. Still unexplained were such questions as: why Russell's body lay unfound in the Morris' lawn swing for twelve hours; why no bullet was found; whether the shot that killed Russell was fired from the rusty gun he clasped in his hand...
...midevening, Hyde Park Democrats paraded onto the lawn before the house and Franklin Roosevelt went out on the terrace to greet them. He had carried his district by 336 votes to Landon's 307, but again lost the village as a whole by nearly 200 votes. "From the returns now it looks as though this sweep has carried every single section of the country," laughed the President...
...officio, President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Last week its gaunt, assiduous Secretary Charles Greeley Abbot published his annual report for fiscal 1935, which furnished a good picture of the multitudinous doings in one year of the ramified organization whose headquarters are in an old red sandstone castle on a broad lawn off Constitution Avenue...
Invented and made by one-time Dartmouth professor F. E. Thayer (who works in a shop so small out photographer had to take pictures of the houses on Mr. Thayer's lawn), ant houses are made in all designs from submarines to coal mines, a few, of which are shown here...
Another innovation is the memorial park which Hubert Eaton, a Los Angeles mining engineer, developed. Mr. Eaton's 350-acre Forest Lawn Memorial Park, which has been copied far & wide, contains no tombstones. Graves are marked by $50 copper plates level with the ground above the body. Mr. Eaton, who operates a funeral parlor on his grounds, discourages ground burials, recommends incineration in his crematory, inurnment and safekeeping in his columbarium. Above all, he prefers interment in a crypt of his gorgeous, statue-decked mausoleum. A refined selling point: Before a casket is sealed into a Forest Lawn crypt...