Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reverend Charles Edwards Park, Minister of the First Church in Boston, Unitarian...
...Union Theological Seminary, Manhattan, a new teacher was introduced to the student body, Professor James Moffat. He has translated the Bible into colloquial English, changing "Garden of" Eden" to "park," "a mess of pottage" to "a red omelet," "Wise men of the East" to "magicians," the Virgin Mary's reply to the angel, "I know not a man," to "But I have no husband...
...illustrate what he denounced as the snobbery, discourtesy, superciliousness, selfishness, greed, hypocrisy and effrontery of many a white missionary, military and business man in the Orient. He told of a Chinese graduate of Yale who was cursed like a coolie by a Shanghai bank clerk; of signs in a park on Chinese soil: "No Chinamen or dogs allowed." He flayed the whites, British and U. S. alike, who commit and permit such arrogance. He roused Governor Farrington's dinner party to his own white heat of indignation and then, suddenly, blazed out: "There's beginning...
...Year's Eve, 1887, a group of friends gathered at Edwin Booth's home (remodeled by Stanford White) in Gramercy Park, Manhattan. Shortly before midnight he disclosed to them a plan dear to his heart. He would found an actor's club, to which would be admitted men in the varied arts, and in which the best of the writing, painting and music world might come to learn that the actor, too, is a gentleman. Mr. Booth was distressed at the slight repute in which his profession was held before the world. He would give his home...
...lost in dimples, the Governors had jocularly pushed and pulled each other across the interstate line. Last week's ceremony on the S. S. De Witt Clinton, anchored at midstream, was to signalize the breaking of ground for the world's longest suspension bridge* -between Fort Washington Park, N. Y., and Fort Lee, N. J. There was no jocular pushing, no pulling; but Democratic Governor Smith pertly warned Republican Senator Walter Evans Edge of Governor Moore's party to take care lest the new bridge make way for a Democratic invasion of New Jersey...