Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great outcry arose from twenty platforms full of women in Hyde Park, London, last week, and a still greater whine of approbation surged from the lips of 100,000 ladies there assembled. The females, mostly shod in flat heeled shoes, had marched to outlaw war and many a one of them had tramped, Chauceresquely, across the length of England to contribute personally her mite to the splendid idea. There were miners' wives, actresses, professional women, society dames...
...gospeling from the platforms could have been heard Margaret Bondfield, leader of British working girls. Lady Astor is one of the supporters of the movement, but her Parliamentary duties prevented her from joining the marchers. On arriving in broiling Hyde Park, the processions were met by actors, dancers, children, who gave a symbolic pageant representing the coming of peace. The speeches delivered, the dancing over, a resolution was adopted urging the government to settle all disputes by arbitration. The lady pilgrims expect that law will, or, at least, "should take the place...
...that ruffled in the wind like huge red roses. They were made of chicken feathers-the down of ordinary white hens, glued on the silk, painted red. In London, dead silver foxes have long been smartly worn around the neck. Recently Mrs. F. P. Long (Philadelphia) appeared in Hyde Park on a Sunday morning parade with a silver fox docilely scampering beside her on a leash. On a nearby street Lady Mary Paston was seen leashed to a small African tree bear...
...everyone knows, numerous members of the rapidly prolific and fabulously wealthy du Pont clan dwell together in a residential park near Wilmington, Del. They are distinguished as a family by a lack of ostentation, a generous solicitude for their retainers' welfare, and an astute dominance in national business (for example, General Motors) and Delaware politics...
...founding of "Estes Park" (Col.) in 1875 caused him to be ridiculed in London as the "Yanko-maniac." As a youth he twice served the London Daily Telegraph as war correspondent (Anglo-Abyssinian and Franco-Prussian wars), shot big game with "Buffalo Bill" and many another, soldiered, yachted, steeplechased. Facially he resembled Wilhelm...