Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite these dark implications, the general tone of the investigations has been disappointing. Senators have launched into the probe with an enthusiasm more appropriate to the traditional Easter egg roll on the White House lawn. Two separate inquiries have been started in the Senate alone. Squabbles over who is to get the juicier witnesses seemed to be developing between Senator Harry F. Byrd (Joint Committee on the Reduction of Non-Essential Federal Expenditures) and Senator Homer E. Capehart (Senate Banking Committee). Capehart claimed the probe as within his group's legitimate jurisdiction; Byrd countered that his committee had been quietly...
Grandson David, 6, was waiting on the lawn when the Eisenhowers returned to the cottage for an appointment with the photographers. "See that David's hat is not resting on his ears," called Mamie. The President inspected the cap, decided it was fine, and he and Grandson David pulled a carefully rehearsed stunt on the waiting photographers. They strolled together, very casually, across the lawn. Suddenly Ike clapped his hands. David whirled, flipped open his jacket and pulled out a long-barreled western cap pistol. Then he snapped his trigger at the photographers. On the second...
...moved on to her husband's Bar 99 ranch in the Nebraska sandhills. She was told then that grass and trees would not grow in the sand, but her sprawling white ranch house now stands in a grove of hackberry and willow trees and on a velvet green lawn. Inside are her collections of Early American glass, beer steins, colonial furniture and needlework...
...MOTORS, which has climbed from a deficit of $2,000,000 to a profit of $2,000,000 in four years, making trucks and power lawn-mowers, has been sold to Henney Motor Co. Inc. of Freeport, Ill., makers of custom-body hearses and ambulances. The sale, still to be approved by stockholders, is a straight cash transaction for $16.5 million, equal to nearly $30 a share for Reo stock. Henney will take over Reo's plants and distributors...
Monkey and the Weight."-And his practical inventions included a plan for simplifying money orders, "a new and better rule for Lawn Tennis," a new form of backgammon, a folder for postage stamps. He was delighted to sit up "till 4 a.m., over a tempting problem sent me from New York, 'to find three equal rational-sided right-angled triangles' ... I found two . . . but could not find three...