Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chicago's Tony Accardo, for example, lives in swank River Forest, conducts his operations at the head of a long director's table in a big basement room lined with an antique gun collection. One Christmas Accardo decorated a 40-ft. tree on his lawn, installed electrically driven skaters, which glided around the lawn on tracks to the strains of Christmas carols. Tony wanted to be a good neighbor. He deplores the tattooed dove on his right hand, which twitches when he moves his trigger finger and reminds him of the days when he was an Al Capone...
Plans for the two days include a showing by Ivy Films and two House dances Friday night, a lawn party Saturday afternoon, and the All College Dance Saturday night...
Weekend tickets include the lawn party, Saturday's dance, and a double orchid corsage flown from Hawaii. Because of state fire laws which apply to the Blockhouse, only 800 tickets will be sold...
...Margaret's best friends in Independence today are the half-dozen girls who lived within a block of her grandmother's house during her early schooldays. Bess, loath to have Margaret stray far from home, encouraged them all to come and play on Mrs. Wallace's lawn, where there were swings and a slide to lure them, and in the capacious Wallace attic and basement. There was an old slave quarters in a backyard close by, which had done time as a henhouse in its later years. There Margaret and her friends organized a club known...
...Springboard. Wilson had been moved to G.E.'s great plant at Bridgeport, Conn., a change which gave him the luxuries of which he had dreamed: a house with a lawn and trees, golf, a Peerless automobile ''built like a locomotive." At Bridgeport, too, he landed on the springboard which was to propel him to the final dizzy pinnacle of the G.E. hierarchy. President Swope-in one of the sweeping changes of policy which have always been one of the keys to American productivity -decided to take the services of electricity to the people...