Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know him. . . as a lonely figure riding of a morning through Rock Creek Park, wearing an immense sombrero, kid gloves, buff waistcoat and an old riding coat. The clothes fit the personality of the wearer. Sensible, unostentatious, efficient, with an occasional outburst of color in waistcoat...
...Stanley Park the President spoke. He referred to the long unguarded border of the two countries as an example which Europe would do well to copy. " Our protection is in our fraternity," said he, " our armor is our faith. . . . The ancient bugaboo of the United States scheming to annex Canada disappeared from all our minds years and years ago. (Cheers.) . . . And if I may be so bold as to offer a word of advice to you, it would be this: ' Don't encourage any enterprise looking to Canada's annexation of the United States.' ... I entreat...
There has been these last few months a barely discernible turn of the tide. Romeyne Park Benjamin, The Jitney Players (mostly college graduates), Oliver Harriman (Princeton) have cast their lots with the actors. Possibly none of them will succeed John Barrymore; yet their example in forcing the national stage door against the dead weight of convention is invaluable. Young men of less position but with more temperament may be aroused to follow their inclinations through the door thus opened...
...working man and these volumes: "He can read the biography of a great man while riding to work; can learn the gist of Chinese philosophy during the lunch hour; can obtain a clear view of the sweep of evolution on his way home from work; . . . Sundays in the park he can carry some of the little blue books and, when he grows tired of feeding peanuts to the monkey, he can read about the upward march of the race from monkey to man. . . . Are mechanics who dream at their workbenches of the glories of the past likely to cherish destructive...
...could knit up with the human glands. Within a few weeks the new tissue becomes continuous with the old, and its hormones begin their beneficial flow. Blood pressure diminishes, sight improves, metabolism is intensified, muscles regain their spring, and new hair grows. Voronoff told the surgeons that a great park is being constructed in Africa under French auspices for the breeding of chimpanzees and other apes and monkeys. The supply of animal glands is too limited at present to accommodate those who desire transplantation. The reason for the use of these species is, of course, their physiological similarity...