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Word: parkes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night she crossed words with her opponent in fashionable Tuxedo Park's Masonic Temple, Gus Bennet extolled the value of public debate, citing for example the Lincoln-Douglas series. Purred Mrs. St. George: "One good thing about women in politics is that they are not continually comparing themselves to the Great Emancipator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: St. George & the Farmers | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

...speak well. . . . For, coming to Denver as you obviously have, with a prejudice against people here, you are not likely to be welcomed with open arms. It's such a shame you had to come here at all. Perhaps your husband can discover oil on Broadway or Park Avenue and you can go back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: From Molly | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

...body was found by a forest ranger on Monday. While camping in Sequoia National Park last Saturday with his brother and a friend, Tuttle and the friend decided to climb separate peaks. Tuttle failed to return...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: W. Penn Tuttle, Former Star Of Cross Country Squad, Dies | 8/30/1946 | See Source »

There was this load of general supplies he'd gotten on the swindle sheet. And a pile of score cards from Braves Field and Fenway Park. And the slick program from the Longwood Cricket Club. There was the radio with a crack through its plastic side suffered the night he'd been a little athletic with an empty beer bottle. That would have to go. All this and only one small suitcase. There was a pile of magazines and newspapers Vag had hoped to take with him, the clippings from the Sporting News and the columns from the Stock Market...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 8/30/1946 | See Source »

...Coming) but it got no popularity until Songstress Fitzgerald unearthed it this spring. Other Houdini songs have had such innocuous themes as I Like Bananas Because They Have No Bones and Roosevelt Opens World's Fair. The time King George ate hot dogs with the Roosevelts at Hyde Park moved him to this song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: King of Calypso | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

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