Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When she left the court 70 minutes later, Helen Jacobs had the painful experience of having her dearest ambition completely thwarted by England's No. 1 lady tennist, who learned the game on the lawn of her father's Worcestershire vicarage and refuses to play a match on Sunday. Miss Round won the first set. 6-2. Miss Jacobs won the second, 7-5. There was a moment in the third when Miss Jacobs needed only one point to lead at 3-1. When Miss Jacobs came to the net behind a weak forehand chop and Miss Round...
...Alan Ginsburg of New Rochelle, N. Y.; Richard M. Goodwin of Newcastle, Ind.; George Gore of Rapid City, S. Dak.; John N. M. Howells of Kittery Point, Me.; Gove G. Johnson, Jr., of Washington, D. C.; Robert Kaplan of Roxbury, Mass.; William H. Kerr of Cambridge Mass. Howard M. Lawn of Long Branch, N. J. Carl H. Levy of Cincinnati, Ohio; Tom Lilley of Bluefield, W. V., Alfred B. Lord of Alliston, Mass.; Harold E. Magnuson of Arlington, Mass.; Kilfred Malenbaum of Dorchester, Mass.; John A. Martin of Banger, Me.; Leon Merz, Jr., of Jenkintown, Pa.; Wilfred Owen of Waban...
Death, as it must to all men, came last week to Cass Gilbert, 74, architect, in Brockenhurst, England. Had not a sudden heart attack laid him low in a bedroom of pleasant, rambling Balmer Lawn Hotel, he, his wife and daughter would have left in two days for Southampton and the U. S. Behind him Cass Gilbert left many a great building to keep his memory alive through many a long year...
...angered by crass attempts upon their lives; and, indeed, if let alone would doubtless lead a selfish existence with little thought of harm. But not to be allowed the freedom of our green is indeed a trial not easily to be withstood. If we let cows come to our lawn, why not let the gentle pussy of the wood; why must we moderns always be so eager to destroy each sign of placid sanity in our hurried life? And why, oh, why, have we no thanks for the Gentle beast who thus did give her life for science...
...Into the White House trooped 319 members of the Harvard Class of '04 with their families, shook hands and exchanged anecdotes with their old classmate Frank Roosevelt. Afterwards they adjourned to the south lawn of the White House for punch and cake with Mrs. Roosevelt...