Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...children of hate. Their archetype is Benito Mussolini. As a young Socialist, he was poor, sickly and beset by strange anguish. "I am afraid of trees, of dogs, of the sky and my own shadow." He was always hungry and he despised the rich. Once, in a Lausanne park, he saw two elderly Englishwomen on a bench, lunching on hard-boiled eggs; he pounced on the women and snatched their lunch...
Both Ottawa and Washington were abuzz with talk about the semisecret wartime Hyde Park Agreement which Canada wanted continued into the years of peace (TIME, Feb. 9). On Capitol Hill, Nebraska's Senator Kenneth Wherry and his Small Business Committee had a staff of clerks digging through the files for a full-dress investigation, some time soon. On Parliament Hill, Saskatchewan's CCFer Thomas John Bentley asked that the Secretary of State for External Affairs tell the House of Commons all there was to tell about Hyde Park...
Debonair Louis St. Laurent rose in a half-empty House last week and casually answered Member Bentley by submitting an exchange of notes* in May 1945 (just after V-E day), when Canada and the U.S. agreed to extend the Hyde Park plan for close economic cooperation into the difficult years of reconversion. The bored House hummed with members' private chatter. St. Laurent's words were little noted...
Poindexter was married Sunday and both he and his wife are looking forward to a Durgin-Park steak dinner with Professor Prosser's gift, but Poindexter still wants his original $5 back and plans to file a declaration of his injury next Saturday in the Cambridge courthouse...
...residents of Scarborough, in a frenzy of excitement over the notes of the first cuckoo, were crestfallen to discover that the trills of good cheer actually came from a toothless street cleaner named Hezekiah Johnson. "I wait until a crowd gathers," admitted Johnson. "Then I go into a nearby park and cuckoo. They all take it in. I used to do a nightingale," he added, "when I had my teeth...