Search Details

Word: parkes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Camera 1936. He'd make a swell interference runner Giant Neil Simpson and Gerald Kagel, coaches the South Dakota School of Mines 1037 graduates shake hands with Tyramusruns Rex, a reptile what the Redlands 40,000,000 years ago and is now a resident of the WPA's Dinosaur Park near Sioux Falls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jazz Personified | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

...seats sold out, or nearly. Thus Raymond Whitcomb, who have the grandstand adjoining Westminster Abbey, have sold all the top-price seats they offered at $262.50 each, have plenty left at down to $94.50 each, their cheapest. Thomas Cook & Son have the stand of 4,000 seats near Hyde Park Corner and throw in with one of these seats a minimum rate inside cabin on the Kimgsholm for $395 roundtrip. This definitely cheap inclusive rate covers dinner, breakfast and bus transport between the ship in the Thames and a point within five rninutes walk of the stand. American Express offer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Golden Frame | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

...lawn and had just had his dinner. His mother left Eugenio to his nurse to welcome her husband on his return. The nurse left Eugenio for a moment. When she returned he was gone. The nurse and the Pereyra Iraolas frantically searched the woods at the edge of the park. Then to the gate of La Sorpresa two miles away cracked a grim order from Rancher Pereyra Iraola that no one should be allowed to leave. By telephone the whole southern Argentine was then called on its first major kidnap hunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: At La Sorpresa | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

...week before the Santa Anita Handicap, Rosemont had won the San Antonio Handicap (on the Santa Anita track), for which his reward was $6,825. Owner du Pont, 42, is President of Wilmington Trust Co., one of the backers of Wilmington's new $1,500,000 Delaware Park race track which will open next June. His sister, Mariona du Pont Somerville Scott, is married to Cinemactor Randolph Scott. She watched five-year-old Rosemont climax the most profitable week ($144,050) any owner ever had in U. S. turf history. Her brother was at home "on business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Richest Race | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

...William du Font's Fairy Hill, a 14-to-1 outsider; the rich Santa Anita Derby for three-year-olds; at Arcadia, Calif.'s Santa Anita Park. Winner's take was $45,425. Mrs. Ethel Mars's Military took second & $10,000; Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney's Ptolemy took third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Mar. 1, 1937 | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

Previous | 134 | 135 | 136 | 137 | 138 | 139 | 140 | 141 | 142 | 143 | 144 | 145 | 146 | 147 | 148 | 149 | 150 | 151 | 152 | 153 | 154 | Next