Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most amusing volume on display is a precursor of the modern books of etiquette, printed in 1685, and entitled "The Mysteries of Love and Eloquence, or, the Arts of Wooing and Complimenting," as they are managed in the Spring Garden, Hide Park, the New Exchange and other eminent places. The contents of the book are further set off in the phrases "And to compleat the young Practitioners of Love and Courtship, these following conducing Helps are chiefly insisted on: Addresses and set Forms of Expression for imitation, Poems, pleasant Songs, Letters, Proverbs, Riddles, Jests, Posies, Devices, Ala-Mode Pastimes...
...Fosdick, pastor of the Park Avenue Baptist Church, Manhattan, attracted nationwide attention recently with his advocacy of voluntary confession for Protestants...
...feminist problem was dropped when Rev. T. T. Shields of Toronto, Canada, President of the Bible Union, launched into an attack on John D. Rockefeller Jr. He charged Mr. Rockefeller and his pastor, Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick of the Park Avenue Baptist Church, with trying to transform the Northern Baptist Convention into "the Religious Department of the Standard Oil Co." All of which was promptly denied by Mr. Rockefeller through...
...solicitor. But last week the orchestra, ''in preference to entering a religious controversy," canceled its own plans, explaining 1) tha Sunday had been chosen for the concerts because most of the civic musicians were employed by theatres on week days; 2) that the prevalence of organ recitals, park band concerts and radio jazz on Sundays in Pittsburgh, against which there had been no organized protest, had seemed to indicate that Sunday symphony concerts might be no more pernicious. Few Pittsburghers stopped to consider that a Beethoven symphony or even a Debussy suite might contain more of the stuff...
...LOVER-Richard Connell-Minion, Batch ($2). Be not dismayed if you hear that this book deals with the spendthrift son of an Irish-American pioneer in a city with slums and polo, like Toledo. Author Connell writes books on transatlantic steamers and French park benches. He knows no more about sons of Irish-American pioneers than he does about Mongolian law or any other dull literary subject. Author Connell is an Irish poet who was made cheerful by being born in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. With no sorrows of Deirdre for ballast, his fancy flies off on such tangents...