Word: lawn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...space, color, the vehement sermons of real-estate sharks and the horticultural efficacy of powdered cow manure. It developed into a new kind of city-a sprawling confederacy of villages, with five branch city halls and 932 identifiable neighborhoods, in which life is dedicated to the sun, the lawn sprinkler and the backyard grill, and in which the swimming pool is the mark of success and distinction...
...Carnegie Hall," one in the nine-room house she runs as the wife of Dr. Shelby Rooks, Presbyterian minister, and one on their York River, Virginia farm, which, she says, "is just a place to isolate yourself -a few boats on the river, a few bunnies on the lawn...
...more reminiscent of the corner barber shop than of the opera house, but they do break up the pre-race tension. Then too, Burt Haines, Bolles' venerable assistant, has more time to take the boys over at croquet. Charley Morgan, the varsity manager, complains, "Burt plays like that lawn was a billiard table...
Ogden, Michael of 18 Cedar Lawn Circle, Galveston, Tex.; Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N. H. Roche, Thomas Patrick, Jr., of 158 New Haven Avenue, Milford, Conn.; Hamden Hall Country Day School, New Haven, Conn. Sciarra, John Joseph of 80 Gilbert Street, West Haven, Conn.; West Haven High...
...friend to call the police, and grabbed a shotgun. The neighbors rushed in, slugged her and wrested her gun away. She snatched off several of their hoods. "We could kill you for that," one told her. They dragged her outside to watch a cross burning on the front lawn. Mrs. McDanal later reported that they lectured her for using her house "to bring men & women together and to sell whisky," which she denied...