Word: lawn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Said the Manchester Guardian: "Sit around and have tea and crumpets, indeed! When he is not carrying coal, the contemporary lord of the manor has his coat off mowing the lawn...
...Angeles judge agreed that the grave of Showman Earl Carroll, in Forest Lawn cemetery, could be decorated with a new monument. He authorized the estate to pay $10,000 for a near-life-sized bronze statue of a winged nude, completed by Sculptor Adolf Alexander Weinman in 1915 and called Wings of Hope...
...standard knee breeches,* turned up at court wearing ordinary evening dress and at state functions smoked the big underslung pipe that became his trademark. A busy man all his life, he dabbled in projects from Chicago's 1933 World's Fair to California's Forest Lawn Cemetery, wrote music for his violin (his Melody is still available on records), was heard from in recent years only on his birthdays, when he gave brusque statements to the press. One of his last: "I'm an old man. No one wants to hear what I have...
Finally five society windows had closed, signifying that 75 juniors had succeeded. But Skull and Bones windows were still wide. For ten minutes Bonesmen circled the lawn, searching for a certain elusive junior...
...90th man was located and Bones shutters clattered. For the men left on the lawn, the disappointment was final but at least the tension was over Most juniors hurried off to their evening feed, while a few lingered on to watch the grey fiannel men parade, lock-step, from the courtyard. The society seniors marched out swiftly, saying nothing and looking neither to the right nor the left