Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...treasure hunt." The Evening World's democratic clientele had heard about Edward of Wales' crawling on hands and knees through alleys in London's Limehouse district, accompanied by gorgeously dight female companions, nosing out clues to pots of gold. They had heard of young swells and sylphs of upper Park Ave. riding hilariously about Manhattan in limousines, sending their chauffeurs into Pierre's or Tiffany's to inquire for neatly enveloped hints that had been left there by committees employed to entertain them...
...first clues in the printed list were not difficult. Hundreds followed them across Park Row from the Pulitzer Building into trolley cars, taxis and subways bound for Union Square (Broadway and 14th St.). On the way they puzzled this clue: "Symbolical term for a branch of the government (five-letter word...
...Park--"Rain," with Jeanne Eagels...
...Park--"Rain," with Joanne Eagels...
...closer home in the city of Rachaels and Izzys, had it not been that it was laid in that section of New York which I have never been able to abide, the West Side. To me that strip of Manhattan north of Columbus Circle which pries in betwen Central Park and the Hudson River, is suggestive of all that is depressing and all that is unromantic in the world's largest city...