Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year ago, Ellsworth Vines, whose father owns a chain of Pacific coast meat stores, reached the finals of the Sea Bright (N. J.) Lawn Tennis & Cricket Club's invitation tournament after a series of smart victories in the early rounds. He was beaten, in perhaps the most surprising match of the year, by Sidney B. Wood Jr., who upset his game by softly patting chop strokes across...
...crashing climax of Director Golterman's Aïda came with the triumph of the Egyptian king at the Act II finale. Eight hundred voices (including the Aframerican chorus) filled the wide night air, 100 dancing girls disported before the monarch and on the lawn in front of the mammoth stage were massed Egyptians on real camels† and a troop of the Cleveland mounted Police disguised as Bedouins...
Firemen had to batter down bolted gates before they could get into the yard, put up their ladders, fight the flames. On the dark lawn were laid the dead and dying, with priests moving up and down administering the last sacrament. The dead: 40. Injured...
Cadillac. Quietly and without display last week Detroit observed its 230th birthday. On a hot July morning Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac beached his canoe there, built Fort Pontchartrain commanding the river, planted a pear tree which some say is the one still standing on the old Descharme lawn...
...banks where unexpected runs had started. But not all the outlying banks were in a condition to warrant saving. In one crack the twelve banks of the John Bain chain went down, affecting laborers and commuting clerks in such Southside districts as Stony Island, Auburn Park, Englewood and Chicago Lawn. Although onetime Scot and onetime Plumber Bain said depositors would receive 100%, the alarm spread. By the end of the week 29 banks had closed, Evanston, Des Plaines, Washington Park and Beverly Hills had been added, along with other communities, to U. S. towns where bank failures have caused suffering...