Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fairview Park Hospital, Cleveland, a Mrs. Sam Smith waited to be delivered of her baby; a Mrs. Harry Conrad Smith waited to be delivered of her baby; and a Mrs. Mathew Smith waited to be delivered of her baby. Each knew not of the others; each trusted in the devices which hospitals use to prevent newborn babies from getting mixed...
...Cleveland's Fairview Park Hospital, Mrs. Sam Smith's time came. Orderlies trundled her to the delivery room. Her own doctor, J. A. W. Reutenik was not there. An interne, P. B. Hisrich, was to help her; and to help him were the hospital's director of obstetrics, Nurse Ruth Meyer, and a student nurse...
Within 36 hours Mrs. Harry Conrad Smith bore a child and Mrs. Matthew Smith a child. One baby was numbered 69, the other 71. Fairview Park Hospital had three Smith babies-numbered 69, 70, 71. Three mothers nursed their numbered babies and called them sons...
Millicent, dowager Duchess of Sutherland, strode up to the locked door of Memorial Hall in Fairmont Park, Philadelphia, knocked imperatively. Wet-eyed, she begged attendants to be allowed to see "The Lady in the Green Dress," by John Singer Sargent. She said: "I am sailing for England . . . must see the picture once more. . . . That portrait was made for me. ... I had to sell it." Attendants let the grey-haired Duchess gaze for five minutes upon herself as she looked 20 years...
...dark house, rambling across the top of a windy hill in Cleveland Park, Washington, D. C., was once the home of Grover Cleveland. Here he repaired in hot weather. The rooms, swept by a fresh continual draft, were filled with the rustle of stiff conversation and stiffer silks; the approaches were guarded, then as now, by large iron dogs. Now Red Top is filled with the rhythmic music of carpenters' hammers; Red Top is being torn down to make room for a modern house, one not infested with reminders of stuffy and strenuous gaiety, hushed talk Coxey...