Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, park officials announced that they had succeeded in ridding the White House lawn of wild onions...
...Grass, Alas! In Salt Lake City, Park Commissioner Fred Tedesco reported that some highly specialized crooks had been at work in Fairmont Park: 225 square feet of lawn had disappeared...
...Hysteria. At the home of Mr. & Mrs. H. C. F. Harwood, near Regent's Park, one of London's few refrigerators (about one British family in 35 owns one) chose this crucial moment to spring a leak. To save their Pekingese bitch, Anna, from asphyxiation, the Harwoods hung her out of the window in a string bag. Whether Anna survived the treatment without hysterics was not reported, but as the weekend approached with cooling thunderstorms, the ever-helpful Evening Standard had a final word of advice for other dog lovers. "Dog hysteria," pronounced the Standard, "has its root...
Hence the good old summertime finds seersuckered College boys making daytime rushes for the Nantasket Beach excursion veasel, and night-time cultural promenades around the Esplanade. Some fans of nocturnal sedentary sport hasten to Braves Field and Fenway Park. Others like to take if lying down along Memorial Drive...
...sharp there was a fanfare of trumpets from the municipal band. "Defense absolue de fumer!" roared the loudspeakers around the park. With a hiss and a rush, the mixture of hydrogen and municipal cooking gas poured into the first of the great balloons lying limp on the greensward of Le Mans' Quinconces des Jacobins. At home, the housewives of Le Mans were busily trying to cook their Sunday dinners, so from time to time the gas had to be turned off again. But in the park a milling crowd of 10,000 cheered lustily...