Word: pavilions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clipped green lawn a pavilion was staked up. In the tent shade a liveried staff arranged little tea sandwiches, plates of cookies, piles of paper napkins; twisted up scoops of ice cream (strawberry, chocolate); dipped tiny mugs of sweet, nonalcoholic punch. In redlined blue capes moved Red Cross nurses; the Red Cross ladies fussed with plates and spoons. Near, but tactfully hidden, waited a khaki colored Army ambulance. Men with 22-year-old wounds must not be overexcited, must not overdo-Trailed by uniformed aides strode Eleanor Roosevelt, summery in a long, pale blue dress, a white hat, to meet...
...York members of Irish-American societies placed a laurel wreath at the foot of the flag pole at the World's Fair Irish pavilion in memory of the "martyrs...
...employes for their boss. The oldest among them have known him since the company was a pup. They all call him "George F." They share profits with E. J. stockholders, since 1938 have shared losses as well (via 15% pay cuts). They dance in the great George F. Pavilion at Johnson City, worship in churches to which George F. generously contributes, get free treatment from George F.'s doctors at George F.'s hospitals, swim in George F.'s public pools. Many live in houses which George F. built cheaply and well, sold at terms in tune...
...Army chaplains had special prayer meetings for George F.'s recovery. Two days before election, word came that George F. was feeling better. Election day, after George F.'s workers had voted from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., NLRB tellers counted the ballots in the George F. Pavilion. That night good news went to the old man's yellow frame house on the hill: 1,612 had voted for the A. F. of L. union, 1,079 for C. I. O., 12,693 for George F. and no union...
...display is probably their most important of the year. The exhibit was prepared jointly by the Fogg Museum and the Peabody Museum of Archeology, which has pioneered much of the recovery of early American cultures. Through the courtesy of the Mexicon government, part of the collection from the Mexican Pavilion of the New York World's Fair has been loaned to the Fogg Museum for exhibition...