Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blanketed U. S. front pages by simply making news as completely as any dictator could blanket the columns of a censored press, Franklin Roosevelt polished off his week by attending to his correspondence of some 10,000 letters, watching 30,000 children roll Easter eggs on the White House lawn...
...before dawn on Easter morning for a sunrise service, Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt Sr.. next day watched 30,000 youngsters indulge in the annual privilege of rolling eggs across the White House lawn...
Many of Artist Klee's paintings were more eerie than these, e.g., On the Lawn (see cut) with its lemon-yellow stratified spectre children. Many of his recent works were more abstract, taking a line walking for its own sake, using hieroglyphic bands, patterns of color values, simplifications borrowed from paleolithic cave drawings or the art of children. If a few of such Klee ideas seemed oversubtle, there was no lack of ideas...
Sadly two Sundays ago Collingswood's zealous Fundamentalists held their last evening service in the big stone church, sang Faith of Our Fathers on the lawn as its lights flicked out. They showered money upon Pastor Mclntire to do with as he pleased. Few days later Mr. Mclntire helped workers put up a rented tent ($250 a week), announced his first service in it for last week, declared that his congregation would have a wooden tabernacle within a few months. To Pastor Mclntire's tent next night came more than 900 people. There, warmed against the sharp spring...
...President Wigglesworth's time the college played a man $2000 a year to mow grass in front of Lehman Hall, which was then a stable. The man's name was Harvard, and he had a square wooden leg, and consequently when he came to the end of the lawn, he could only turn a sharp corner. These sharp corners formed a square, which came to be called "Harvard's Square...