Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Count Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff, pre-War Ambassador to the U. S., he was sailing toward home and Fatherland, while the U. S. War-time press thundered accusations that his agents had encomposed every crime from espionage and arson to letting loose deadly bacilli among the perambulators in Central Park, Manhattan...
...glowing words she drew a picture of the clubhouse: 1,225 bedrooms, a miniature park enclosed, a garden terrace for tea, fireplaces flanked by soft divans, ballrooms, assembly rooms for musicales and lectures, libraries, laundries, dining-rooms, cafeteria-she completed her towering picture. The envious were free to mutter "ground-grippers...
...tried to resume my morning's work, when in came Otto, company chef, in spotless white. He wished me fortune. Other employes streamed in during the morning. Finally, just before I went home to celebrate with my wife, six children and seven grandchildren, who awaited me on Park Avenue, there came a message from my father, William H. Fiske, who has lived- most appropriately, some think, for the father of a life insurance...
...wounded and imprisoned, and of seeing Camilla Dame (heroine) walking in her pretty garden. Kirk Hale, the cousin to whom the author devotes most of his attention, is as thoroughly a blackguard in his way as was Captain Flagg of What Price Glory, the model hero-villain of all Park Row War fiction. Only, unfortunately, he is a dull blackguard, subject to long states of his author's laboring mind. Similarly Anthony Hale, the noble cousin: his silence is not eloquent...
...into Boston nowadays, the Harvard student descends into the bowels of the earth, drops a dime into a box, and enters a coffin-like case of steel. He is whirled over the Charles to Park Street Under in ten minutes, almost before he realizes it, to be spat up on the surface again via an escalator...