Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Malecon, a seawall boulevard, the Army Staff Band plays for the public; in Central Park, the Havana Municipal Band. In the Tropical Gardens, free beer is served...
Five days afterward came a sudden thaw. From ice into water turned many a stream-including the Serpentine, that storied streamlet of Hyde Park, London, in which swam Peter Pan. Thus, it became possible to hold last week, the famous 110-yard Serpentine Swimming Race which is sponsored each year by Sir James Matthew Barrie. Last week he stood at one end of the Serpentine under an old, sopping umbrella and awarded to the winner of the race, one H. J. Edwards, the handsome, annually donated Peter...
...this order devotees of beauty and of Paris rejoiced. The Champs Elysées ("Elysian Fields") are at one end an oblong park of magnificent foliage and at the other a street recently as exclusively residential as was upper Fifth Avenue, Manhattan. Most of the signs which glared upon the Elysian Fields up to last week advertised such products-not-sold-on-the-premises as the Austrian tooth preparation Odol and were blatantly objectionable...
Nervously buying tickets, gingerly stepping in, worriedly harkening to an unaccustomed roar, certain brave citizens of Tokyo patronized, last week, the first subway to be opened in the Far East. The new line, constructed after U. S. designs, stretches from the Tokyo railway terminus to the amusement park of Asakusa one mile and a half distant...
...sermon from a public meeting in Manhattan. Since then the Federation has broadcast daily morning prayers, a weekly Youths Radio Conference, a weekly interdenominational service, a weekly hymn service, a Sunday vesper service. Last autumn, the sermons of Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, of Union Theological Seminary and of the Park Avenue Baptist Church in Manhattan, were added to the vesper services. Last week, these were formally organized as the National Church of the Air. A representative of the radio committee of the Federation is now touring western cities to stimulate interest in the National Church of the Air, perhaps...