Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Saluted by beaming policemen, chattering lightheartedly, fluttering in their bright kimonas like iridescent butterflies, 2,000 geisha girls flocked last week to the spacious park of their famed Yoshiwara quarter in Tokyo...
...TRIUMPHS OF PEACE ENDURE, bronze doors open through a colonnade into a circular hall containing twelve windows and four niches in which statues personifying Charity, Justice, Brotherly Love and Fidelity will soon be enshrined. The building faces Lake Michigan at the corner of Lake View avenue and Diversey Park...
Others who have acted similarly are: Tertius van Dyke who left Park Avenue Presbyterian Church for a Connecticut village charge; Charles Clingman whom St. Thomas' could not lure from smoky Birmingham, Ala.; Dr. Harris E. Kirk who has remained in peaceful Baltimore despite the insistences of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church...
...profession have given this virtue: he is hard to hurt. He absorbs, without feeling them, blows that would decimate an ordinary citizen. He was not afraid of little Samuel Mandell, a street-shiek of 22 with oiled hair and a nice smile, who confronted him in a rainy ball park in Chicago last week. Mandell kept popping left jabs into his face; even a very ordinary citizen could have hit harder than that, and Kansas smiled his rocky smile. Yet, after he had endured ten rounds of slapping and cuffing, waiting for a chance to land a real blow...
...next while between Chicago and a place called Ravinia, 21 miles north. Why anyone should want to be going to Ravinia puzzled a number of dolts, until they read that rich, artistic Louis Eckstein was again presenting operas there. Those who obeyed the timetable, found themselves in a park roofed by tall trees. Some dined sumptuously at a restaurant and danced to jazz; others stocked up at the hot-dog stand, or picnicked at rustic tables in the woods; others arrived in evening frocks and white flannels, from dinner parties at Lake Forest or Winnetka. Two thousand spectators sat under...