Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...talkative week for Mr. Coolidge (see THE CAMPAIGN). He addressed: A large delegation of Manhattan tradesmen, who came before him on the White House lawn bearing ancient guild banners and their own goodwill; the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, before whom Mr. Coolidge went where they sat assembled in their newly dedicated home in Washington; the "Golden Rule Dinner" of the Near East Relief, at which Mr. Coolidge was guest of honor; the $100-a-plate dinner of the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies, the guests at which sat in Manhattan while Mr. Coolidge...
Since the first ranking of intercollegiate lawn tennis players, the championship has been awarded to Harvard men in the singles 16 times, and in the doubles 17 times. J. S. Clrk '83 was the first singles champion from Harvard in 1883, and in that year also he won the doubles championship with H. A. Taylor...
...postprandial exuberance, he would harangue a blithe gathering in his rooms upon his years of study at the science of propelling a spheroid. He would then tee a ball on the carpet and drive it smashing through a closet panel. Another feat was to loft balls from the lawn of University College to the sward of Queen's College over the walls and across "the High." A servant would then call at Queens, mocking politely: "Mr. Tolley's compliments to the gentlemen of Queens and might he have his golf balls back...
...last day or two of the President's "vacation" in Vermont were not much different from similar days in the White House. Two hundred automobiles full of "Grangers," from ten states rolled into Plymouth and were received on the lawn, rainy and misty although it was. Alva B. Johnson, onetime President of the Baldwin Locomotive Works; Representative John Q. Tilson, of the Speaker's Bureau of the Republican National Committee; John Barrett, Chairman of the Coolidge Independent Group; George W. Davison, Vice-President of the Central Union Trust Co., were among the callers. The total number of visitors...
...rained all day, but toward evening it cleared, and General Dawes walked out on his front lawn in Evanston. Its semi-privacy was completely annihilated. Great spotlights glared from the trees, moths and mosquitos buzzed around, red torchlights glowed fiercely, and 40,000 people trampled the soft greensward of his neighbors' lawns...