Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London, Ballet Dancer Serge Lifar of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo was severely criticized for taking curtain calls while the audience called for the ballerina. Ever since, Lifar has been grumpy, dissatisfied. Last week in Manhattan he challenged Ballet Director Leonide Massine to a duel in Central Park. Massine told him, "Take an aspirin." In a huff Lifar took instead the S. S. Champlain for Europe...
Colorado's boyish Governor Teller Ammons bet Texas' boyish Governor James V. (for nothing) Allred that the University of Colorado would whip Texas' Rice Institute in a football game last January. The stakes: Pike's Peak v. Big Bend State Park on the Rio Grande. Rice won. So last week the two Governors motored to the top of Pike's Peak, which Governor Ammons thereupon handed over to Governor Allred. Governor Allred raised the Texas flag...
...Narragansett Park, from whose management he was ousted early this year by his opponent, Governor Robert E. Quinn...
...this year the luck of the Irish deserted Mr. Rooney. First he was unlucky at the race tracks. Then he was forced to postpone the Pirates' home games at Forbes Field (National League baseball park) because of the World Series plans of the baseball-playing Pirates. That deprived him of large gate receipts. Then the Whizzer, who had scored 122 points for the University of Colorado last year, was unable to whiz for Owner Rooney. Some observers, noting that White averaged only 2½ yards per try, accused his teammates of refusing to give him proper interference...
Trumpets tore the night air. Into New Orleans' City Park Stadium, where 65,000 Roman Catholics knelt, moved a ''Eucharistic chariot"-a large float, draped in burgundy and gold fabrics, bearing the kneeling figure of George William Cardinal Mundelein, Archbishop of Chicago, and for this occasion a papal legate in a gold mitre and cloth of gold cope. Be fore him stood a tall ostensorium worth $35,000, an altar vessel made of gold objects, diamonds and other jewels donated last winter by thousands of Louisiana Catholics...