Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. Miss Leslie Bancroft, of Brookline, Mass., famed lawn tennis player, to one Charles F. Aeschliman of Cannes, France...
...Chairs and a table were moved out to the rear lawn of the White House. A notary public, a battery of camera men assembled. Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge appeared. The President sat, holding up a large envelope for secrecy's sake, and marked his ballot. Mrs. Coolidge, wearing a necklace of seven ivory elephants, .did the same. The notary took their affidavits; the ballots were sent to Northampton, Mass...
...Cameramen who missed Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge doing their ballotting induced them to go out on the White House lawn and do it over again. In order not to violate the statute, however, the Coolidges refrained from mailing their second ballots...
Devereux Milburn, Captain of the American International Polo Team; George Wharton Pepper,* U. S. Senator from Pennsylvania; Grantland Rice, sports writer. These three were last week appointed to serve on a special committee to study the player-writer rule of the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association. The question at issue is: May an amateur sportsman write, if he can? Can he commercialize sport by profiting from the literary value, if any, of a name which sport has made valuable? The literary fecundity of "Big Bill" Tilden, national tennis champion, has raised the argument. Hence the dapper Senator, hence the astute...
...neighbors, it is a simple enough matter for the father to drop in on them after supper and explain that the lad knew not what he did. If they are nice neighbors, they will surrender the implement without argument and the owner can whisk the leaves off the lawn next morning as planned. Not so simple is the Government's task of recovering its celebrated Oil Reserves, No. 1 and No. 3*, leased respectively by onetime Secretary of the Interior Fall, in a spirit commonly described as mischievous, to Edward L. Doheny and Harry F. Sinclair, oil merchants. Last...