Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...powerful role a First Lady has ever assumed, all the practical considerations of daily living have been removed -- whether she wants them to be or not. As she sits in the Library on the first floor of the residence after holding a reception for community volunteers on the South Lawn, a butler brings her iced tea on a silver tray, and with him the unmistakable formality of this old house with 132 rooms. She finally eats lunch that day at 3:30, looking almost too exhausted to chew, and admits it's been a "pretty stressful three months...
...each other for a few hours, and in the shadows behind the door of the diplomatic entrance, he touched the side of her face and took her hand before they came out to say goodbye to the 500 members of the health-care task force gathered on the South Lawn. He thanked them, and then turned and said, "I'm indebted once again to my wonderful wife." It's a line uttered by politicians since the Republic was formed, but he may just mean...
Fogarty and Bannon, however, almost missed out on the fun before they got out on the croquet lawn...
...entered through a nifty gauntlet of candles to see dancing in the courtyard. Real ballroom dancing. With a real dance floor. And an orchestra. In a tent on the lawn...
...other formerly familiar sights are more habitually associated with Eliot House, such as croquet on the lawn or house cocktail parties. "Tradition--if that's what a cocktail party constitutes, then those are traditions we have no problem perpetuating," Eliot Co-Master Stephen A. Mitchell...