Word: lawn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exclusive country club, a vacation in which the only requirement of the oarsmen is that they keep things on the up and up by rowing a couple of miles each day. This impression is usually strengthened by a look at the facilities at Red Top, with its rolling lawn, eroquet field, and five shiny white buildings. Consequently, it is indeed unfortunate that this impression is one hundred percent wrong...
Afternoon exams are given after lunch, and if a man doesn't have a scholastic obligation, he either goes back to sleep, plays a little croquet on the lawn, or tosses a couple of horseshoes. The crewmen are not permitted to injure themselves and are therefore restricted to such relatively tame activities; in any case, they have little inclination to exert themselves. A ten mile row before breakfast (when the river is calm) is generally enough to eliminate any desires they harber for violent exercise later...
...children run under the sprinkler on the lawn...
Zanuck runs the weekend party with the same steely control he uses at the studio. He refuses to play any game at which he does not excel. Since Playwright-Scripter Moss Hart introduced him to croquet, he has made it a cult, has turned his lawn into one of the world's best-kept croquet courts, complete with floodlights...
...radish being watered in the picture to the right is one of many that have mysteriously sprouted in the lawn plot between Wigglesworth and Grays Halls-Beans, carrots, lettuce, squash, ginnlas, marigolds, and sunflowers are also growing, along with the grass that the University has recently sown...