Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thundering down at you when you were trying to cross the street and stop right in your way, now have to creep along the curb and discharge passengers in front of Straus Hall or the Harvard Trust Company, depending on the direction they are going. Cars may no longer park in either of these places. Parking in front of Straus and Massachusetts Hall will be diagonal...
...Italian, had evidently reached the ear of Swiss Max Huber, president of the International Red Cross, which suddenly refused to present its evidence to the League of Nations' Committee of Thirteen. In a pouring rain Anthony Eden went for a long walk in Geneva's Mon Repos Park, stood for a long while looking at the grey waters of the lake...
...portrait of the share-cropper's life in the poor worn out agricultural South, the author, Jack Kirkland, has written a play, that, with some few changes in the denomination of the money mentioned, might as well have been set in a good second-rate apartment hotel on Park Avenue. In this sense, indeed, it is a universal work, and while he should have been casting the spell of poverty and misery, he lets his love of dialogue run away from him, and the momentary humor of back talk of somewhat Chick Salian hue masks the enduring tragedy...
...only for conducting lotteries but for obtaining money under fraudulent pretenses. Golden Stakes, run by Golden Stakes Advertising Corp., does not pretend to any motive of social benefit. Golden Stakes tickets, at $1 each, entitle their holders to see a flying circus at Fitzmaurice Flying Field at Massapequa Park, L. I. Ticket-holders may also enter a contest which consists of picking titles for six cartoons from the names of 25 songs listed under each. First prize: $60,000. Other prizes amount to $90,000. The organization's vice president and counsel, at $100 per week, is Alfred Emanuel...
...people. But we think he ought not to give all his money to the people and ought to save some for when he is old. It would be very sad for him if he was an old man without any money and had to sleep in the park...