Word: parked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guys I name they are in prison, all but one, he went to the chair. His name was Earl Parks. I even went to prison myself ... for the Jackson Park murder in 1940. . . . I got out in June '46. It looks as if that sure have been a lessing to me don't it. But it wasn...
...five-deck sidewheeler with a 20,000-sq.-ft. dance floor, the Island Queen operated out of Cincinnati, where for years she had made daily summertime trips to an amusement park called Coney Island. When the Coney Island season closed on Labor Day, she went barnstorming upriver, booked ten days of excursions out of Pittsburgh...
...high. And never before has one stable won so many big pots. Last week, Calumet Farm added up more than $1,000,000 in purses won this year (previous record: $601,660). Its pride & joy, Armed, had put Calumet over a million with his victory in the Washington Park Handicap at Chicago. Armed overtook Assault to become the second biggest money-winner of all time. And there is still another quarter million in purses for Calumet's fast horses to run after this season...
Roosevelt was cheered by most of those who saw him, though not in Wall Street ("They hate me and I welcome their hatred"). In his old stamping grounds around Hyde Park, he was generally ignored. Once when he got lost near Rhinebeck, he turned into a farm for directions. "The farmer was painting his barn and the Boss drove up beside him. 'Can you tell me where the Halton place is?' the President asked. The farmer looked down at . . . the President, spat a pint or so of tobacco juice past the car, and motioned. 'Down there, about...
...preparation). During the college year ahead, in addition to his crowded lectures, he will also be busy "tooting" his 18-odd tutorial pupils. At regular intervals they will come, singly or in pairs, to read him their essays in his handsome, white-paneled college room overlooking the deer park, or (when there is not enough coal or wood to keep it warm) in his tiny, book-crammed inner study. Lewis has informed the BBC that he is through with radiorat-ing, for an indefinite period. He has no immediate plans for further "popular" books, fantastic or theological. But Lewis admirers...