Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Central Park row boat...
...other part of the great metropolis which displays so much of poverty's backwash-tired women in frayed dresses of years ago, old men who capture a smoke from discarded stubs of cigars." The home will be "a place for those who cling miserably to vacant seats on park benches, who sit all day in branch libraries reading endless newspapers, and who, sometimes, when fortune favors them, get a chance to carry huge advertisements for cheap trousers or tumbledown restaurants on their backs...
When the Statler opened with the flourishing of commercial trumpets and hymns from the Park Square realtors, there was prevalent a feeling that at last Boston had been recognized and that it no longer need bow its head in shame at the mention of hostelries. Now its pomp has increased, for it may flaunt a Ritz-Carlton in the fact of those who doubt its metropolitan savoir-faire...
...Appeal to College Presidents" in the May Review of Reviews, Hamilton Holt, liberal, President of Rollins College at Winter Park, Fla., let it be known that the professional taint has not yet been removed from athletics in southern colleges. Naively, he told of the money-enticed athletes whom he had ousted from Rollins College. Then he suggested a new solution...
...Roosevelt Roosevelt, 73, philanthropist, half-brother of onetime Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Delano Roosevelt; father-in-law of present Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Douglas Robinson; onetime brother-in-law of the late Colonel John Jacob Astor; of asthma; at his estate, Red House, near Hyde Park...