Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From time to time he noted defects-park grass which needed cutting or a building which needed paint-and scribbled manifestoes on a pad at his side. But the city boasted amazingly clean streets, dozens of parks and playgrounds, fine schools, libraries, one of the finest zoos in the U.S., a fairgrounds, an E. H. Crump Stadium, good hospitals, good health...
Such talk confused Pedro, the kind of man who took his wife to the movies twice a month and walked in the park with his twelve-year-old daughter on Sundays. His simple political philosophy: "I worked 20-odd years, and management never did much for me. Now, since the revolution I got a pay increase, a bonus, and an old-age pension. Perón did that. I voted...
...Canadian customs refused to let Spud take more than $50 out of the country. Nevertheless, he checked in at Manhattan's Park Central, toured hot spots (see cut) in search of a wife. He knew what he wanted: "She must not be too hefty, must be a genuine homemaker...
Victor Moore, the theater's fatted Caspar Milquetoast, threw a stick in Manhattan's Central Park for his 2½-lb. Pomeranian. The Pomeranian went after the stick, and Actor Moore got a summons for letting the beastie off its leash. In an old revue sketch Moore played the role of a man who spits in a subway, fights a $2 fine, and winds up in the shadow of the gallows. In real life Moore just paid his $2 fine in court and tripped away. "If they issue summonses for dogs of this type," he croaked, "they should...
...four singles matches against Great Britain the Frenchmen didn't lose a set. But the whole show looked more like public-park tennis than Cup matches. Whoever wins the European Zone finals-France, Sweden or Yugoslavia-will still have a long way to go for a chance at the Australian cup holders...