Word: parked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Things were seasonably merry on the Christmas-tree farm at Hyde Park. Elliott Roosevelt, who owns the business with his mother, sold twlve-foot trees at $1 retail, to "make Christians out of Christmas-tree dealers," he explained. He had sold 50,000 trees wholesale, and figured that within a few years he would be selling 100,000 a year. Following precept with example, Elliott & wife Faye (in a mink coat and jodhpurs) juiced up the sales by doing some hawking in person-and got rid of 500 trees...
Manhattan last week might be proud of its "three miles of Christmas trees" along Park Avenue, but that pagan procession of lights was dim and chill compared with the magnificence of the Nativity Plays which almost every Renaissance Italian witnessed. Machiavelli mentions one so elaborate that its preparation kept all Florence busy for six months...
Shaw, never a systematic nor an original thinker, preached socialism-but a brand so condescending and aristocratic that both Hyde Park revolutionists and solid trade unionists regarded him as an interloper. His bureaucratic socialism was a mixture of the Enlightened Gentleman and the Robot Superman. His heated exposes of the conditions of England's workers were followed by sneering gibes at their stupidity (the "Yahoos," he called them). He attacked capitalism, but portrayed capitalists so sympathetically that the readers of his plays found the attack indistinguishable from a defense...
...police with turning Act II of the Communist pageant into opera bouffe. From the suburbs each morning of the strike came a gala stream of bicycles. Cycling gallants stopped at the homes of working girls, happily wheeled them to work (as many as dared) or to the park (as all wanted). Fathers joined families in morning strolls behind baby carriages, through the Villa Borghese pines or along the slopes beside the Appian Way. All the cafes were supposed to be tight shut. Some were, but near by was always another with its steel shutters invitingly half open. A bunch...
...Winter Park...