Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George Voigt and Leonard Crawley, a Dunfrieshire. schoolmaster better known in England for his cricket than his golf. Crawley's iron on the :8th overshot the green and bounced against the Cup which, with its bright silver handles sticking out like donkey's ears, was standing on the clubhouse lawn...
...waded in his favorite pool, cast his fly again & again. The crowd and the photographers' cries for "more action'' scared the trout away but the presidential fly whisked neatly to & fro, caught no trees or brushes. Then the President acted out a homely role on the lawn before his cabin. He propped a book open on his knee, played with his dogs, strolled about. Mrs. Hoover brought out her knitting. Changing to riding breeches, the President had his horse Billy brought up from the Marine Corps corral, rode it at a walk up & down the mountain trails...
...news on the north steps of the State capitol. That location was chosen for economy's sake, as no expensive awning was needed to shade the notifiers. With the Vice President were his sister, Mrs. Dolly Gann; his daughter, Mrs. Leona Knight; his rambunctious son Harry. On the lawn were 5,000 spectators. Nominee Curtis made a speech. It was broadcast over 48 stations but omitted from New York and Chicago...
...Helen Wills Moody is so much the best women's tennis player in the world that it is not unnatural for her to behave in ways that, for a lesser player, might seem arrogant. Moreover she is married and tends to be serious-minded. U. S. Lawn Tennis Association officials rather expected her to enter the singles championship at the last minute again this year but Helen Moody decided not to. She stayed in Paris, "to study painting." The U. S. L. T. A., which had paid her expenses abroad to play at Wimbledon, expecting she would return...
...graver man of 58 who accepted his second nomination a few blocks from the White House. Almost all his hair was grey now. In his shoulders was a perceptible droop of fatigue. Plain were the marks of three of the worst years any peacetime President has had to endure. Lawn Party. Before accepting the nomination, President Hoover gave a lawn party to 500 important G. O. Partisans at the White House. Guest of honor was 71-year-old Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Sr. who had had "a perfectly wonderful trip down" by air that morning from her Long Island home. Dressed...