Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Coolidge let it be known last week that Custer Park, S. D., had been chosen for his summer vacation. At once observers began to drape his choice with political significances. They pointed out that the decision had followed visits from Senator Peter Norbeck of South Dakota, self styled "Roosevelt Republican" and no intimate of the Old Guard...
...Black Hills lies Custer Park, South Dakota's 125,000-acre forest reserve. Famed for its elk, buffalo, trout, natural caves, bottomless lake, needle-like rock-for-mation, Custer Park offered high altitudes and cool breezes to the presidential tourist...
...importance of Bozo's return to this hub of greater Boston. Small wonder that sleepless heads beat upon the blanched pillow of Beacon Hill; that hatred of Sacco and his partner in disaster faded as this news flashed. Many even forgot the fight to remove the Chevrolet sign from Park Square as they meditated upon the myth of Mary...
...sculler on the Charles defies an English river, fit for nothing but the languid progress of punts, to show such interest and variety within a few short miles. He has no patience with those who would reduce the banks of the stream to the insipid beauty of a city park. It is a dirty stream, to alien eyes an unattractive stream, but it is peculiarly...
...created them with so few strokes of his charcoal and such a rare vein of middle-aged-female innuendo, that their gusto seems stifled when, located in a charity home, with a zither player, a retired fireman, an orphan oaf called Fester, a man with an elephant, and a Park Avenue dowager for companions, they become heroines of a story of which the dizziness does not compensate for the length. The upshot of the story is that Mrs. Flusser inherits $20,000,000 and the old gals pack up their Sunday stays and hug-me-tights to go and live...