Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high good humor all week, Franklin Roosevelt could chuckle as he read these words and repaired to Hyde Park, leaving Congress to stew in Washington. Nature and Franklin Roosevelt make a combination hard to beat...
...Comet, two-year-old race horses owned by Ethel V. Mars and Emerson Woodward respectively: $18,000 each, for running a dead heat in the Arlington Futurity, after which judges examined photographs of the finish with a magnifying glass without being able to decide which was ahead; at Arlington Park, near Chicago...
Died. Harold Francis Davidson, 65, "The Lustful Rector of Stiffkey" (pronounced Stewkey); after being attacked by a lion; at Thompson's Amusement Park, Skegness, Lincolnshire, England. Since his unfrocking for unministerial relations with prostitutes, Mr. Davidson had kept in the limelight by appearing at a suburban movie house, exhibiting himself in a barrel, being ejected from a nudist camp. His last exploit, lion-taming, ended when during the course of his act he accidentally trod on the toe of a lioness whose mate leaped at him, mortally mauled him before his 16-year-old girl assistant could come...
...John Hay Whitney's Flying Scot, ridden by Jockey John Gilbert: the $35,000 Arlington Classic, feature race of the season at Chicago's swank Arlington Park; by half a length from Eagle Pass, owned by Emerson F. Woodward of Houston...
Back to Manhattan and his 42nd-story office overlooking City Hall Park where his faithful investigator of 16 years service, John Terry (ne Capozucca) and his three lawyer-helpers toil, surrounded by framed pictures of "The Boss" and clients he has defended, came Lawyer Liebowitz. Refreshed by a night's sleep at his big new eleven-room home in Brooklyn where his twin 17-year-old sons Robert and Lawrence plan for Princeton in September and his daughter Marjory, 11, practices the piano under her musical mother's eye, Lawyer Liebowitz hurried to the defense of his latest...