Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Avery may have looked like a potentate to you, but to me he looked like a Brooklyn umpire being escorted from the park...
From his London hotel window South Africa's Prime Minister can look across Hyde Park's greensward-too sleek and flat for one who loves to walk the rough sandstone of Table Mountain or the undulant, spacious land of the Transvaal. He breakfasts at leisure, on gift eggs from egg-rationed English friends. He listens to the radio's news, scans the Times, attends to cables and correspondence. By 10 o'clock he is ready for visitors in his big bay-windowed reception room. By n he has changed his slippers, buttoned up his red-tabbed...
...three children.* Sir George, wealthy landlord of the great Yorkshire estate of Renishaw (inherited by Sir Osbert in 1943) believed that art was merely "part of the general make-up of the cultured man." To prove it, he once tried to have "all the white cows in the park stenciled with a blue Chinese pattern...
...never worked, Sir George was always busy. Twice Tory M.P. for the fashionable seaside resort of Scarborough, his chief political handicap was that he could never remember his constituents' names. When not immersed in heraldry, he spent his time sitting on a tall wooden tower in the park, a gray umbrella over his head, a telescope at his eye, figuring out his latest ideas in landscape gardening. "I don't propose to do much," Sir George would say casually, "just a sheet of water and a line of statues." He also liked practical jokes...
...Secret Three. Created at the Moscow Conference (Hull, Eden, Molotov), the Advisory Commission began work last December in London's barnlike Lancaster House, overlooking flat, shady Green Park. The commissioners: Lincolnesque U.S. Ambassador John Gilbert Winant; cautious, deadpan Russian Ambassador Fedor Gusev; the British Foreign Office's lanky, tireless Sir William Strang...