Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prenzlauerberg, Berlin's northeastern district, 100 new park benches were installed. Ninety-two bore the inscription "Jews Prohibited"; the remaining eight "Reserved for Jews." Der Angriff, mouthpiece of Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels, strongly recommended adoption of this "ghetto measure" in other Berlin districts...
...annual musical. Unhappily and obviously, another reason is the remembered rather than memorable elements in its story: the routine of a leading character leaving home to follow a horse, first used in Broadway Bill (Columbia, 1934); the George Murphy-Eleanor Powell dance in Central Park, the interrupting rainstorm and their going into a pavilion for shelter, all copied almost without change from Top Hat (RKO, 1935); finally, the curious parallel between Star Gazer's reaction to Charles Igor Gorin singing Figaro and the behavior of a trotter named Cupid in David Harum (Fox, 1934) who won his races when...
Died. George Wright, 90, shortstop on the Cincinnati Red Stockings (first all-professional baseball team), founder of the sporting goods firm of Wright & Ditson, establisher of the first golf course in Boston at Franklin Park; in Dorchester, Mass...
...stake is the Hopeful ($25,000 guaranteed). Of recent years, newer tracks have made a practice of publicizing themselves and attracting famous thoroughbreds by posting immense added prizes for handicaps. The three-year-old Santa Anita (Calif.) track currently gives the biggest, $100,000. Suffolk Downs (Mass.) and Narragansett Park (R. I.), both comparatively new plants, plan equal purses next season. To make sure that great horses will enter these races, handicappers at new tracks narrow the limits of weights imposed on the entries, so that a very good horse need not carry much more poundage than a horse whose...
...later years, when she went with Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows, millions gawked at her and fed her peanuts. Always leader of the parade, Babe was the unquestioned monarch of the elephant picket line. But three years ago General Director William M. Mann of the National Zoological Park persuaded the Ringlings to retire Babe to his pachyderm house. Besides plain old age, she was afflicted with an ingrown toenail, bad teeth. Even so she became the prize exhibit of the Washington Zoo. Younger, stronger elephants soon discovered she had brought her ruling manner with her. Her stanchest admirers...