Word: malling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ohio to get them. Congressman Davey ought to know, because he is Davey the tree surgeon. Mr. Davey replied that he had seen three or four buckeye trees in his life, did not know of any in Ohio, the Buckeye State. There was one, he said, on the Mall in Washington...
South of the White House, the austere, vigilant column that commemorates President Washington pricks the sky, a granite bayonet; west, at the end of the Mall, the Lincoln Memorial dreams above its grave lagoon. Now there is to be another memorial in Washington- one to Theodore Roosevelt. Last week, the Roosevelt Memorial Association appropriated $1,000,000 for this project, invited famed architects, sculptors, landscape designers to compete in submitting designs. Entire freedom was given to the imaginations of the competitors, the one stipulation being that the memorial "shall adequately commemorate the character and significance of President Roosevelt." The site...
...band broke into the national anthem. The massive main iron gates were thrown open and through them slowly passed the state coach, six footmen walking on either side. In the rear the Captain of the Household Cavalry led his troop and the small procession passed out into the Mall beyond the Victorial Monument amid deafening cheers from a million uncovered heads and the flutterings of handkerchiefs from the hands of the heads that were covered. On either side soldiers of the five Guards Regiments (Coldstream, Grenadier, Irish, Scots, Welsh), standing rigidly with presented arms, lined the streets from the Palace...
...Cabinet. A short walk down the Mall, then up the steps and past the Duke of York's Column and into Waterloo Place went Mr. Baldwin. At No. 1 Pall Mall, on the corner of Waterloo Place, he was seen to enter; for it was the Carlton Club, headquarters of the Conservative Party. Soon after, a stream of messages summoned the leading lights of the Party to the Club; and the following day, Mr. Baldwin began Cabinetmaking. His choice, which was everywhere termed courageous...
...Central Park, Manhattan, was held last week a unique memory contest. To the 10,000 citizens who stood about the Mall listening to the orchestra which the City engages to entertain melodylovers, pieces of paper and sharp lead pencils were distributed. As the band played extracts from 100 different selections, the game was to jot down the name of the selection. The results were surprising in their excellence; almost all the scores were creditable. "How do you account for it?" an official was asked. "The movies," said he. "They teach people music. The day has gone by when the girl...