Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...through last week upon a hospital, upon a family of six in a backyard shelter, upon apartment houses, upon more shops and busses. Londoners, shaken but still full of understatement, talked mostly about the lucky misses. One bomb sailed close over a crowd at a band concert in Hyde Park, landed a scant 500 yards away, killed only two. The band went on playing On Steps of Glory...
...checking his accounts, presiding at the tea table when Mrs. Roosevelt was absent, deciding which appointment seekers and telephone callers should reach him, answering much of his personal correspondence, sitting with him evenings to take down any vagrant thought. Her voting address was the Roosevelt home in Hyde Park; her home, a third floor suite of the White House...
Henry Wallace had not wanted to go to Chicago. He was tired and jittery after his trip home from China. His stomach was upset: he had politely munched too many Chinese radishes. For several days he avoided friends and politics by simply locking the door of his Wardman Park apartment...
...York City's famed and fiery Park Commissioner Robert Moses has blown exceedingly hot recently on the subject of foreign-born city planners with notions about the U.S. (TIME, July 24). His salvos have been charged with such powder as: "[the imported planner] is hurting our architecture by advocating a philosophy which doesn't belong here and fundamentally offers nothing more novel than the lally column and the two-by-four timber...
...cloverleaf intersections which garland Randall's Island and the related flora which cover with concrete the once-lovely slopes of Riverside Park were first propagated in the soil of Prussia. Our housing projects proclaim . . . the precedents of Holland and of Sweden; nor is the tradition of England forgotten in the latest improvements of New York's parks. . . . "All practice originates in theory. Everything that is made must be first imagined. . . . The problems which confront each great city in Europe and in America are not so unique in character as to demand separate philosophies or special techniques of analysis...