Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bearing substrata were last week applied to perpetuate the surface grandeur of 600 square miles of the Appalachian chain far south of Pennsylvania. The Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial fund announced that it had underwritten half of the $10,000,000 fund sought for the Great Smoky Mountains National park. Public subscription and the legislatures of North Carolina and Tennessee had provided most of the other $5,000,000 required to buy what will be the outstanding national park in the eastern...
Accessible to three-fourths of the country's population, containing a dozen peaks higher than anything north of Virginia's southern boundary, except Mt. Washington in New Hampshire (6293 ft.), still frequented by Cherokee Indians, the new park will be advertised as a rival of Yellowstone, Glacier, Yosemite. In place of naked peaks it raises up lofty, rolling domes fringed with balsam. Its bears are black instead of grizzled and the deer frisk white tails in place of the western black. For lodgepole pines and wind-torn spruce, are substituted every variety of tree and shrub that...
Hard by, the Great Smoky Mountains park, a 327,000-acre swath of Blue Ridge territory, six to ten miles wide, between Front Royal and Waynesboro in Virginia, is to be secured as the Shenandoah National park. Last week, the $4,000,000 fund necessary for this project was reported within $100,000 of completion...
...mother, a movie censor, drinking strong fruit punch in the assurance that it was denatured grape-juice. When the sixteen-year-old met the bachelor's nephew, danced with him and kissed him, the man watched it and was happy. When she ran off to "park her girdle" he was made flabby with enjoyment. When a perfume was described as "one of the six best smellers," when a person was described as "the knife of the party," when nephew salutes uncle with, "Hello Epsom, old salt!" the man's guffaws annoyed his grouchy neighbors. He was panting...
...Marines) or even dressed as a cadet (West Point). This time he is a polo grandstand player. Here Actor Haines, rich man's son. flirts with Constance Howard, presses undesired kisses on her, steals her slippers at a dance, throws his shoes in the soup at a Park Avenue dinner party, salts and eats the carnations. None the less, this objectionable young man has a mount on the U. S. polo team. In the last two minutes of the final chukker in the international match he knocks the winning goal, ending his baroque antics, closing a silly picture...