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There was a tall dirt mound bordering the backyard of the final row of houses. Ducking into a finely manicured lawn, I scrambled up the heap...
Thrown in jail, Emo asks his cellmate what he's in for. "'Sodomy.' I figured he was a lawn installer or something....Well, it pays to increase your vocabulary...
...sunny morning last week, Ronald Reagan strode jauntily onto the White House lawn. Surrounded by politicians looking to share credit and camera angles, the President picked up the first of two dozen pens -- one for each letter of his name so as to maximize the number of souvenirs -- and signed the Tax Reform Act of 1986. But when those around him saw his handiwork, there was a burst of laughter. "I was in such a hurry," Reagan confessed, "I wrote my last name first." The President remedied the slip by squeezing in a cramped Ronald in front of Reagan...
Author Seale rates the eminently forgettable Millard Fillmore as having had the best head for design and doing as much as any other President to improve the White House grounds and the beauty of Washington. The mounds on the South Lawn are not Jefferson's after all, says Seale, but the result of dumping excess dirt from excavation for the Treasury Department when Franklin Pierce was President...
Croquet at the competitive level is very different from its backyard counterpart, the version everybody plays on their grandmother's lawn on the Fourth of July. Yearsley compares it to a "big version of billiards," while Anderson feels it is more "a combination of fishing and equestrian events...