Word: ponds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that his bathroom there was blessed with a real tub. The next year when his dormitory was incorporated into a House, he moved away, aspiring successfully to a garret underneath a floodlit spire. But he has missed his tub terribly; he has longed many times for the warm artificial pond wherein he used to read, write themes, sleep, invent refreshments and occasionally washed...
...dusk the Nourmahal rounded Manhattan Island, shoved its knife-edged nose through Hell Gate and out into Long Island Sound. By morning it was anchored in Fort Pond Bay near Montauk Point. Because the weather was drizzly, the President lazed about all day, reading, resting. The third day, wearing only a pair of duck trousers, he went off fishing on the sloop Orca under the guidance of bronzed, taciturn Captain Herman Gray, who used to take President Hoover out sailfishing in Florida. President Roosevelt & party got only some sea bass and porgies, no swordfish, no bluefish. one tuna. Remarked Captain...
Just a few more notes will clear up the list. The relief map of the United States at Babson Institute in Wellesley Hills is the largest in the world. . . Stop at the Administration Building on Hill side road near Houghton's Pond in the Blue Hills Reservation. . . If you can bear to visit transatlantic liners (or can pretend to be looking them over with an eye to choice) the Italian, Hamburg-American, Cunard and White Star lines welcome visitors. . . If the dogs of conscience drag you to the Art Museum, don't forget you can get lunch on the premises...
...also, were William Hussey Page, Manhattan lawyer and onetime president of the New York Athletic Club; Horace Binney, retired surgeon-in-chief of the Boston City Hospital; Charles Page Perin (captain), Manhattan consulting engineer. Dr. Sumner Coolidge of Middleboro, Mass., and little Coxswain Sabin Pond Sanger, retired banker of Brookline. Mass. They disembarked at the Metropolitan Racing Club, brashly promised to row up the Charles again...
Died. Thomas Tingey Craven Gregory, longtime friend and attorney of Herbert Clark Hoover; by drowning when his motor car crashed through the rail of a bridge and fell into a pond; near Napa, Calif...