Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...citizenry of Chattanooga, Tenn., eternally picketed by statues commemorating Civil War battles, planned a $500,000 memorial park on the Tennessee River's Moccasin Bend...
...Devon Elliott, a manufacturer of haunting perfumes. Devon's career is notable, her lure considerable, but her life somehow becomes a champagne bucket of ashes. Her husband loves her, yet leaves her; her refugee swain loves her, yet has a girl in every flat. Seeking to blend Park Avenue with poignancy, brittle talk with amorous bruises, In Bed We Cry is much less a slice of life than a setup for an actress who wants to do everything from scintillate to suffer...
...Winner. The President had slept late at Hyde Park the day before, had dictated letters, and then lazed through the afternoon, relaxed after the tense final weeks of the campaign. Messages of congratulation had poured in all day from all over the world. But now, as his car rolled into the plaza, he heard and saw something more satisfying than telegrams -the sudden sound of cheering, the sight of thousands of umbrellas shining in the rain...
...members of what Mrs. Luce called "the whole Broadway-Browder Axis" were all guest stars in the anti-Luce show. The President, himself, asked for her defeat and on election night, when the first returns seemed to augur defeat for the Congresswoman from Connecticut, Franklin Roosevelt told his Hyde Park neighbors: "I think [that] would be a very good thing for the country, and that is a rough thing to say about a lady...
...salons of Florence and Paris, he boasted an ancestry that included three colonial governors, a wife who was the daughter of U.S. Senator Charles B. Farwell, Chicago dry-goods tycoon. Reggie wore a monocle from the age of 15. When he built his Tudor mansion on Manhattan's Park Ave nue between 85th and 86th Streets (it still stands), he dressed himself as Sir Walter Raleigh and gave a mammoth housewarming, serving up a boar's head on a platter...