Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...forbidden for a man to be alone in a hotel room with a woman who is not his wife, sister or mother. A simple kiss in the park is a legal offense. Adultery is actually considered a crime. But that does not keep the Americans from yielding to nature's demands, with the result that there exists a general state of dissimulation and hypocrisy that is rotting the soul of America...
...while walking in a park and quoting Goethe to a friend that Nikola Tesla "saw" the induction motor that first brought him fame. He was able to draw it with a stick on the sandy path in the exact detail with which he presented it, six years later, to the American Institute of Electrical Engineers...
...Kidd, Mungo Park and Willie Park Sr. managed to overcome the Morrises the next three years. And then, on Christmas Day, 1875, Tom Morris Jr. died, aged but 24. Tom Morris Sr. lived on, but never again was a Morris champion. St. Andrews "canonized" the pair of them and erected a statue of Tom Morris Jr. making an iron shot. The statue's legend reads: "Sure...
Doctors of Evanston, Highland Park, Ravinia and Lake Forest, Illinois communities along Lake Michigan shore north of Chicago, announced last week that they would charge double fees for calls they received after 7 p. m. Their decision excited comment in the Chicago Journal of Commerce, business newspaper...
...When we Get in With Nice People" is the vegetative tragedy of a couple who progressed from Greenwich Village to Park Avenue without discovering that "nice" is the emptiest word in the English language...