Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...money Sir Thomas Beecham has poured out to advance the musical education and opportunities of Britons, not only at Covent Garden but in park bandstands and at the colleges, was amassed, as everyone knows, through the world-famed pills which his father, Joseph (later Sir Joseph) invented as a farm boy and peddled on country roads until he could make the backs of barns, signboards and fence-rails peddle for him. "Beecham's Pills,"* the newspapers and country sides of England, eventually of the world (including Greenland), echoed and re-echoed. Sir Joseph died the third richest...
Meantime, the steel ark's Noah, Dr. William M. Mann, proceeded from Boston to the National Zoological Park at Washington, which he superintends, with some 1,700 other African creatures loaded on eight trucks, and ushered all safely into permanent captivity. It was the end of the largest live-animal-collecting expedition of modern times, which all started when Manufacturer Walter P. Chrysler (automobiles) heard that Washington urchins lamented the lack of giraffes, zebras and "rhinoc'ruses" in the nation's zoo (TiME, March...
...grandson of U. S. Vice-President (1812-14) Elbridge Gerry: "A fallow deer jumped over a 10-foot iron paling in front of my Fifth Avenue house and stood, with vain eyes and excited flanks, before my door. Captured by Policemen and idlers, it was removed to the Central Park Zoo, which reported that it was not one of theirs...
...average church. And the contrast in manner between the voluntary worshipers at Harvard and the constrained worshipers at Williams is simply appalling. Harvard men come into the chapel as into the house of God; Williams men, hurried, swarming, newspaper-landen, come into it as into a Bronx Park express...
Spectators attending the game in cars and who park their cars either in the private parking field on the Brighton playground off Western Avenue may on playground off Western Avenue may enter through Gate 4, at the southern corner of the field. Ticket holders leaving their automobiles on the Metropolitan Parkway in Brighton should enter the enclosure either, through Gate 14, at the southwest corner of the field, or through Gate 19, opposits the Newell Boathouse on the north side of Soldiers Field...