Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Coolidge has a great opportunity to play the role of a second emancipator?to free us from the horrors of war. Will he grasp the opportunity?" ? Joseph P. Tumulty, Secretary to President Wilson, at a conference of Democratic women at Asbury Park...
...fight takes place at the Polo Grounds (New York National League baseball park), Manhattan, September 14. It will go 15 rounds to a decision. Tex Rickard is the promoter. Dempsey will enter $300,000 in his profit column when the fight is finished; Firpo will receive 12 1/2 % of the receipts with a guaranteed minimum of $100,000. The winner will hold the most valuable asset in professional sport ? the heavyweight boxing championship of the world. Wrote Firpo in a New York newspaper : " I am not such a big fool that I do not have respect for the champion...
...Paul Moody's circle of super-sophisticates, Harold found himself as bewildered and shocked as an innocent goldfish in a bowl of curacoa. He failed to enjoy the delicate odors of their elegant decadence, and fled into marriage with Alice Blake, whose idea of Heaven was a brand-new Park Avenue apartment. But on his honeymoon he discovered the horrible truth. Father hadn't really wanted him to be charmingly wicked but to disgust him with the pleasant sins of life by throwing them at his head?a plot of which Alice had been cognizant from the first. The honest...
...contracted to use oil-burners include the Equitable Building, Metropolitan Life Insurance Building, R. H. Macy & Co., Columbia University, John Wanamaker, Saks & Co., The New York Times Annex, Pershing Square Building, Hotel Claridge, Mount Sinai Hospital, Knickerbocker Building, Excelsior Savings Bank and a number of large apartment houses on Park Avenue and Riverside Drive...
...Golden Age of turfdom seems at hand. Papyrus, winner of the 1923 Epsom Derby (TIME, June 18), and therefore technically England's greatest three-year-old colt, may cross the Atlantic for an international match race with his fleetest American contemporary, in October at Belmont Park...