Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King Edward, first kissing the wholesome Duchess of York and the graceful Duchess of Kent, took his stand in a great durbar tent pitched on the close-cropped lawn of Buckingham Palace for the first presentations of ladies in the new reign. (Gentlemen were presented in March and June...
...entrained for Hyde Park immediately after the dedication ceremony, Franklin Roosevelt eased away from the cares of Drought, Labor and Politics, reached home in high spirits. Four hundred Hyde Park Democrats, members of the 7-year-old Roosevelt Home Club, were waiting on neighbor Moses Smith's lawn when President and Mrs. Roosevelt drove up to greet them. Chatting easily from the back seat of his car, the President told his neighbors about the Triborough Bridge, about the drought, about the growth of local interest in government which he thought was "the greatest gain in the Depression...
...usual success. In Mineola Mrs. Clarence Mackay, the onetime Operasinger Anna Case (see col. 2), hid her jewels in the closet, foiled the burglar by leaving exposed an empty case which she found pried open next morning. In Mill Neck, while Mrs. George Bullock entertained guests on her lawn, the thief sneaked upstairs, pocketed $20,000 in gems. Same evening he crept into the palatial home of William Robertson Coe, two miles away at Locust Valley, made away with a three-foot rope of matched pearls worth $300,000, a diamond ring worth $38,000, enough other loot to bring...
Died. Daniel McFarlan Moore, 67, retired inventor of television apparatus; of gunshot wounds inflicted by an unknown assailant; on the lawn of his home at East Orange, N. J. Once associated with Thomas A. Edison, slim, mild Inventor Moore had over 100 patents, no known enemies...
...Italian province of Catanzaro, white-maned Giuseppe Donato has long enlivened Philadelphia with artistic disputation. In 1915 he sued Chocolate Tycoon Milton Snavely Hershey for refusing to accept a marble group called Dance of Eternal Spring which he had ordered for a fountain on his front lawn. A jury awarded Sculptor Donato $25,000. Mr. Hershey persuaded the City of Harrisburg to take the Donato fountain. Cried he: "I don't want this damned thing anywhere in Hershey...