Word: woodmont
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hobby was paleobotany - of all things. When the train arrived His Royal Highness eagerly scanned the welcoming brass-hats and demanded "Where is Dr. Wieland?" Consternation smote the party and a frantic search for Yale's forgotten man ensued. He was eventually found at his modest Woodmont cottage, seven miles out of town (no telephone) , rushed into his best suit, to Memorial Hall, and into a seat next to the Prince (at the Prince's insistence). The conversation presented pretty tough going for the local elite and even for the President and Fellows, for it dealt almost exclusively...
Died. Sylvester Zeffarino Poli, 77, showman, sculptor, artist, founder of the chain of 18 Poli theatres in New England; of pneumonia; in Woodmont, Conn...
...week-end to the Woodmont Rod & Gun Club in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Hancock, Md., the President took his party's sturdiest political wheelhorses-Jack Garner, Joe Robinson, Pat Harrison, Joe Byrns, Jim Farley. After a lunch of venison steak the party retired to the sun-sparkling private lake, where the President reeled in the day's best catch- ten trout, the legal limit. Followed a dinner of broiled pheasant, after which chairs were drawn about a crackling fire and six professional politicos put heads together to scheme their way out of the Bonus...