Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dancing at the Bagdad. Next he got her indicted "for an offense against the public's sense of shame.'' No attempt, however, was made to stop the Poetess of Naked Rhythm from appearing at frankly bawdy Paris music halls outside which the public was expected to park its sense of shame. More popular than ever. Miss Warner has been cashing in on her indictment all winter, banking the wages of dirt, and appearing at numerous night clubs and galas as well as the Theatre Alcazar which advertises "Naked Women in the Manner of the Burlesque Shows...
Revel. In Old Moscow last week was held the first Carnival permitted by earnest Bolsheviks since the Revolution of 1917. With returning bourgeois gaiety, 100,000 Russians were encouraged to enjoy a madcap masked revel which lasted nearly all night in the Park of Culture & Rest, the State supplying masks and soft drinks, with all alcoholic tipples barred. Since the habit of censorship has become ingrained under Stalin, arriving revelers were inspected at the gates by censors who said that their purpose was "to keep out joy killers." Barred was a Russian who arrived in a tight black suit painted...
...Manhattan's Central Park Zoo, one midnight a policeman spied Anthony Sclafani in shorts and bare legs feeding grapefruit to the yaks. In court Sclafani produced a basket of green vegetables, told the magistrate, "See. All fresh vegetables. The yaks love grapefruit...
...great dome which tarnishes above the defunct New York World's offices in Park Row no longer has any significance, and the owls whose illuminated eyes once ogled Herald Square from the old Herald Building only appear now at "alumni" dinners. But across the continent last week the hoary symbol of another great newspaper settled down on its third perch atop a brand new building. For the great bronze eagle of the 54-year-old Los Angeles Times is the mascot of a publishing property still very much alive...
Found shot dead in a Detroit park was Howard Carter Dickinson, 52, nephew of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes's wife. Attorney Dickinson had gone from New York to Detroit to investigate a young woman's claim against the $40,000,000 Yawkey (lumber) estate. After four days' search, Detroit police produced William Schweitzer, underworldling, and three dance-hall girls who told of having been with Lawyer Dickinson on a two-day drinking party culminating in a hold-up and the shooting...