Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tiglon* in Manhattan's Central Park Zoo ever got to the U.S. Senate he would receive a good many invitations to Washington parties, particularly from oil heiresses and South American embassies. As Senator Tiglon of New York he would also be invited to the White House, thus posing difficult, but not necessarily insuperable problems of security. And if he refrained from eating butlers (except at crowded cocktail parties), observed protocol and learned to growl softly at older women, Senator Tiglon might even-despite his mixed parentage -become a social lion...
...Manhattan's swank Park Avenue Racquet & Tennis Club, the British racquets team met the U.S. in the first international racquets team match since 1930. The British relied on control, while the Americans concentrated on slugging the ball. Britain's doubles team of Cosmo Crawley and Jack Paule, never beaten, kept their record intact. Final score: Britain...
...site was a rocky knoll off upper Market Street, its only building a battered shed decorated with an old election poster. When Wright gets through with it the place will resemble a miniature World's Fair; a glamorous cousin of Southern California's lively Forest Lawn Memorial Park (TIME...
...Those who choose to park on the public streets around the Houses run the risk of police tagging, although for practical purposes, the risk there may not be as great as it is on Mt. Anburn Street and other through streets." Reynolds asserted. He added, "we have had counts made several nights of the cars in these streets and, before the snow fell, there were occasions on which the congestion there would have justified police action...
...Harriet, who had now borne Shelley two children, as his wife. Godwin himself, the author of many ennobling and free sentiments, took advantage of the situation to get money out of Shelley. Shelley left Harriet. In 1816 Harriet's body was recovered from a pond in a London park. Blunden only guesses at the circumstances of this painful episode. His book (published 14 months ago in England), was written before publication in the U.S. of The Shelley Legend, (TIME, Nov. 19, 1945), which does a lot to set the record straight. Author Robert Metcalfe Smith proves that Mary Shelley...