Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the estate of Rhode Island's rich U. S. Senator Peter Goelet Gerry. Also nearby was the swank yacht-going Warwick Country Club, to which belong John D. Rockefeller Jr., Harold S. Vanderbilt, many another bigwig. Senator Gerry and club members often graced Neighbor Rettich's lawn parties with their presence...
...founded in Philemon Pormort's kitchen to get the colonists' boys ready for Harvard, which opened a year later. Within a year Master Pormort fell into the heresies of Anne Hutchinson, had to be sternly sent away. In 1714 the school stood on what is now the lawn of Boston's City Hall and Benjamin Franklin was a pupil. In the years before the Revolution its Master was a Loyalist named John Lovell, who had the task of making such ardent young Revolutionists as John Hancock, Samuel Adams, William Hooper and Robert Treat Paine mind their Cicero...
...statistics prepared by a financial "expert" and passed around Washington bars and cloak rooms: "Population of U.S. reported at 124,000,000 "Those eligible for old age pensions under several plans 50,000,000 74,000,000 "Number of Government job holders and persons prohibited by child labor lawn from working 60,000,000 "Leaves just 14,000,000 "Persons unemployed 13,999,998 "Balance to produce the nations goods Just you and me, and I'm all worn...
...time he reached the window, the express, Washington-bound from St. Louis, had ground past with the rear half of the Williamsport school bus still clinging to the engine cowcatcher. Father O'Hara and another priest, his house guest, hurried into the rain. On the front lawn a girl lay unconscious. Two students were impaled on the cowcatcher, others strewn for 200 yards along the track. Bent on saving what Catholic souls might be among them, the two priests administered last rites to one & all. Meanwhile Rockville's volunteer firemen were sorting out the living from the dead...
This match, which is a biannual affair, is played for the Prentice Trophy which was donated by Bernon S. Prentice '05, Chairman of the United States Lawn Tennis Association and former captain and champion at Harvard...