Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Plenipotentiary to France (1909-1912); a major on the staff of General Pershing in the A. E. F. When Major Bacon died in 1919, he left his widow one more distinction, seemingly one that would last. Their distinguished home in distinguished Manhattan was at the unique address: "One, Park Avenue...
...wife of meat packer) have a dog farm at Highland Park, Ill. Last week a cat crept in among 150 of the dogs; created a yapping, snapping havoc. A passerby rescued the cat, helped quiet the dogs, asked for a fine bulldog, was granted his request...
...some charming alchemy in nature, those places are often the most lovely where men have most suffered. George Washington marched his men to Valley Forge, now a vast well-kept park, along roads that were rutted with ice. The tents went up along the hilltop and the soldiers built their fires in the dark. Night after night the wind blew down like a white wolf, blew the snow up over the small starry fires and howled at Washington's army from a cold, tremendous sky. Soldiers have been brave before and since; Washington's men heard the wind...
Alighting at Leinster House (Parliament), His Excellency soon stood respectfully in the presence of Free State Chief Justice Hugh Kennedy who solemnly administered the Governor General's oath of office in both English and Gaelic. Thereafter unassuming Governor & Mrs. Mc-Neill quietly took up their residence in Phoenix Park, Dublin, at the Vice-regal Lodge...
Died. The Rev. Dr. William Elliot Griffis, 84, organizer in 1870 of Japan's first public schools, of heart disease; in Winter Park...