Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spots were found: 1) an 18-mile stretch of the Rapidan River in Shenandoah National Park, 100 miles west by south of Washington, upon which a presidential fishing lease was arranged; 2) a tract of 1,500 acres known as Catoctin Manor, 50 miles north of Washington, watered by Hunting Creek. This tract (but not the Manor House) was purchased in the name of Lawrence Richey. A rustic cabin will be built to receive President Hoover and his intimates...
Spring was coming to Washington with a rush. Sap was rising. The Japanese cherry trees encircling the Tidal Basin in Potomac Park were about to burgeon. A soft greenish sentimentality was adrift in the air. Ulysses Simpson Grant III walked out of the long flat Navy building, sniffed the sweet air, drove to the Tidal Basin, examined the cherry tree buds with the expert eye of a lieutenant-colonel of engineers. Then, in his official capacity as Director of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital, he predicted that these famed trees would blossom forth in all their...
...party of 30 Britons and U.S. citizens came to South Africa last week on the new and luxurious Canadian Pacific liner Duchess of Atholl. They saw Cape Town, traveled inland to the diamond mines, and leaving the railroad, embarked in motor busses for the Kruger National Park game preserve to see the wild animals...
Tiajuana dozes in dusty sunshine a couple of rifle shots across the U. S. border. The track, where each spring more than $98,250 is posted for one horserace, is so near California that tourists park Fords and Cadillacs on the U. S. side to avoid the nuisance of search (for liquor) when race day is done. A signpost says AL HIPPODROMO and a long bar under the grandstand dispenses beer and spirits. Otherwise the racetrack and its patrons are markedly Americano...
...derived at this time from the British Organization of Fascists. As secretary of these young, Conservative zealots she led them in numerous "Raids on Reds" during the British General Strike, and did valiant service in breaking up Communist mass meetings in Hyde Park...