Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...showman, is not a great artist. He has tried to do a Faust, with snatches of The Adding Machine and the Ballet Mechanique. His devil is a silk-hatted Babbitt named Mr. Moneypenny, who seizes an old and whining clerk named John Jones, gives him ticker tape and a Park Avenue apartment. It soon becomes apparent that John Jones is not happy-one doubts that he could be happy under any conditions. His children (with one exception) go to various types of metropolitan hell. Meanwhile, Author Pollock denounces night clubs, politicians, newspaper owners, Algonquinesque writers, Wall Street, society...
Married. David A. Schulte, cigar store tycoon of Manhattan; and Mrs. Henry Koehler, relict of the treasurer of Park & Tilford (candies); in Manhattan. Mr. Schulte owns Park & Tilford, controls Dunhill tobacco, Vivaudou perfumes, Huylers candies, other commodities...
...sermons of Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick usually are preached from his pulpit in the Park Avenue Baptist Church, Manhattan. He preaches to packed houses; it therefore is not easy to attend his church, but to gain admittance to the church proper the following instructions have been issued: attend the service in the men's auditorium, hear Dr. Fosdick's voice through an amplifier; sign a blank and receive a ticket for admission to the church proper on the following Sunday...
...Among these are Balboa Park, San Diego, the world's largest aviary; the San Diego Community Welfare Building; the Scripps Memorial Hospital; the Scripps Biological Institute at Miramar; the La Jolla playground...
John Pierpont Morgan might well have said last week: "A reckless liar named Bernard F. Champayne, posing as my grandson, obtained $15,000 from Mrs. B. P. Fields of Ginter Park near Richmond, Va., and became engaged to her daughter. Liar Champayne was sentenced last week to serve ten years in a common jail...