Word: ponds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When she retired from the stage in 1918, Maude Adams vowed never to act again. She has broken her vow twice: once in 1931, when she toured in The Merchant of Venice; again last winter when she performed on the radio for Pond's Cold Cream. Last week, Maude Adams, now 62, seemed closer than ever to a real return to the Manhattan theatre where she was No. 1 actress (Peter Pan, Little Minister) in the decade before the War. She opened at Ogunquit, Maine, in Twelfth Night...
Next morning startled Kentuckians saw the ladies roll across the toll bridge over the Tug River at Williamson. "I'm just running around," Mrs. Roosevelt assured them. For a morning's amusement she drove down to see Henry Ford's coal mines at Pond Creek, then ran across into Virginia, lunched at a roadside stand near Norton and from her running board made a little speech thanking the crowd which gathered to gape at her. By nightfall the ladies had crossed through eastern Tennessee and were at Asheville...
...Majlis to be Shah and King of Kings with "full powers" which make him in fact independent of the Majlis. Always domineering, he now became the utter autocrat and one day even kicked his first-born and beloved son Crown Prince Shapur Mohammed Riza into the palace pond for a trifling offense...
...Italian motif dominates the 22 buildings of Indiana limestone and white-washed brick. In the blue of a long pond glitter the glass & aluminum of two bird houses and a reptile house. A bug house, first in the U. S., is half completed. It will hold everything from amebas to high invertebrates...
...Municipal Golf Course at Fresh Pond, with its 3037-yard, nine-hole layout, was begun in 1931, after the idea had been persistently urged by Carroll Doten, Cambridge Park Commissioner and Brain Trust member...