Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Condemned as a Socialist, Mollet chose to meet the end like one. Wearily climbing the podium, he delivered a lackluster speech which revealed his own uncertainty about Algerian policy. Then, reaching into his pocket, he produced a brochure and like a park-bench orator began intoning: "I have here a small document given to every new member of the Socialist Party, containing not only the rules but a declaration of principles." Exploded Independent Deputy Roland de Moustier: "Enough propaganda! Your ministers spend their Sundays making Socialist speeches when they should be working." Unruffled, Mollet read out a paragraph about labor...
...year to California in taxes, had been given to the State of California. A condition of the gift, which includes a Moorish castle: it will be dedicated as a "historical monument," and a memorial to Hearst and his mother Phoebe. California was no shortsighted beneficiary. Its State Park department is even now plotting rubberneck tours at $1 a head...
Trailing 6-4 in the seventh inning, the Yankees scored eight times and went on to crush the Red Sox, 17-8, last night at Fenway Park...
...young recruits maneuvering about Fairmount Park in Philadelphia one day during World War I, the drill seemed strictly routine. But suddenly their first lieutenant began giving some very non-routine orders. Before they knew what was up, he had marched them across the green and straight into the art museum. There he proceeded to give them a learned lecture on the museum's paintings. "I thought it would do them good," the lieutenant explained latef. "And besides, they were my first captive audience...
...leap from being a tenement child to becoming the 19th century's hostess with the mostes'. The child of a Manhattan barber and his seamstress wife. Louise used to deliver her mother's embroidery to the fine houses on Washington Square and St. John's Park. Her one ambition was to break into that glittery world and call it her own. She made it. Today more and more social climbing is merely the ascent from one suburban foothill to a slightly higher hill ; in Louise's day more dramatic mountaineering was frequent...