Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...army of gardeners dug up rosebushes, chrysanthemums and shrubbery at the Presbreys' spacious place off Connecticut Avenue, and moved them back five feet to make room for a Parisian street scene, complete with sidewalks and sidewalk cafes. Carpenters built a 30-by-50-ft. dance floor over the lawn, covered it with a sideshow tent, which was decorated as and called the Moulin Rouge. Pressrooms, male and female, were set up with tickers and telephones...
...obligation to contribute to Piedmont. From now on, without the churches' steady support, President Walter may have little to keep running on-only his dwindling tuitions, the Armstrong money and the resentment of many of his students, who recently planted a Ku-Klux-type cross on his lawn and set it aflame...
...came to roll Easter eggs on the lawn...
...football games, dressed in the loud yellow jacket of the Tigers, the professor was usually on hand to lead the cheering. At dances he acted as "bouncer," at elections as "policeman." Sometimes he could be seen mowing his lawn in his underwear, sometimes taking a constitutional at 3 a.m., and sometimes wandering through the Southern Missouri hills, cape and all, looking for Indian mounds...
...timely warning from President Gilbert F. White, who told them to stay out of trouble or "rot in jail," Haverford students invaded the neighboring Bryn Mawr campus. Failing to tear down decorated poles set up for Bryn Mawr's May Day celebration, the Haverfordmen poured gasoline on the lawn and ignited it to form a pretty, blazing H. After a night of rotting in jail, they were set free. "It was just spring fever," said the tolerant Merion, Pa. justice of the peace...