Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army colonel) were born in 1902 in Leavenworth, Kans., where their father was a broomcorn merchant. They were a devoutly lighthearted Irish Catholic family of five. The twins went to Cathedral School in Leavenworth, where a stern rule forbade the playing of mumblety peg on the front lawn. "Bill liked to have fun," said Clara Boyle, "but he always got by." One day Bill and Russell were tossing a knife into the turf when a priest walked up behind them and coughed. Bill looked up beamingly. "Such a beautiful lawn, Father Kelly," he said. "We couldn't bear...
...street blew up, then another, and another. People scrambled into the street dodging flying timber and glass. The blasts spread, rolled on like giant popcorn, too fast to count. A boy staggered out of a house, his arm in shreds; an old man quietly went on mowing his lawn near two shattered houses as the first fire engines roared past...
...Manning does her own housework. The premier mows the lawn in summer and shovels the snow in winter. Manning neither drinks nor smokes, and has no use for card-playing. "The family altar," he dourly comments, "has been replaced by the bridge table." On Sundays, the premier and Mrs. Manning travel 187 miles to Calgary, where he conducts a Bible class and broadcasts a sermon from the Bible Institute. His wife plays the organ for the hymns...
...making speeches at home (see SCIENCE). He also found time to attend a London Variety Club luncheon at which he was given a life membership certificate (putting him on equal footing with Harry Truman) and hailed as "Brother Barker." As just plain "Papa," he joined his wife on the lawn of Clarence House, their London home, to give photographers a homey picture of royal family life with Prince Charles and Princess Anne, who is one year old this week, in the crawling stage and the proud possessor of six teeth...
...typical program last week, the Budapest played Mozart, Brahms and Debussy for 3,300 fans in Chicago's North Shore Ravinia Park. The audience had its share of highbrows, but scattered on the lawn near the stage were hundreds of seriously attentive youngsters. Other quartets, e.g., the Paganini, Pro Arte, Griller and Juilliard, fiddle for equally enthusiastic audiences from Fond du Lac to Fort Worth...