Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mind. A year later, his mother, radiantly beautiful Queen Astrid, was killed in an automobile accident on a vacation in Switzerland (the King himself had been driving). Haggard with grief, Leopold returned to his country home at Stuyvenberg. His three children were playing on the lawn: Josephine-Charlotte careening down the paths on her bicycle, five-year-old Baudouin in panting pursuit, and Baby Albert on his nurse's lap. Unable to speak, the King turned away, sent out a lady in waiting to tell the children the news...
Common requests are for gardening, lawn mowing, chauffeuring, typing, furniture moving, house painting, and the like. The pay averages around $1 an hour...
...light fixtures, smashed radiators, a refrigerator and stove, bashed in the toilet bowl. For good measure they ripped up two apartments below the Clarks (the tenants, like most of the 19 families in the apartment house, had long since fled). Then the mass of broken furniture on the lawn was set afire and the cheers grew louder. Police did not make a single arrest. At about 2:30, the mob once again faded away, but everybody knew that it would be back...
...denizens that scurried for other cover. Governor Warren, looking and sounding outraged, took quick action: he fired a handful of sheriffs and constables (including Dade County's wealthy Sheriff Jimmy Sullivan). The quizzing went on and the governor saw another log overturned, right on the Statehouse lawn. Out scurried one of the governor's old friends, William Johnston, big-shot Miami and Chicago race-track operator, tagged by the Kefauver Committee as "an associate of Capone mobsters." Johnston unwillingly recalled that he had whistled up $135,000 for Warren's successful election campaign. Meanwhile, Warren reinstated Miami...
...Lieut. Governor Joel Hayden saw the original statue while on a trip to Europe in the 1840s, had a bronze copy made and set up on the front lawn of his estate. According to one version of the story, his brother-in-law talked him into donating Sabrina to Amherst at a time when the college was beautifying its campus. Another version: when Hayden's God-fearing constituents objected to such a display of nudity in front of his mansion, he made a politician's decision that pleased both college and constituency...