Word: parks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...private child welfare work. He built the $3,000,000 Heckscher Foundation building in Manhattan for the entertainment and care of children up to the age of 16. Here he cooperates with the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, by housing the waifs. He financed two Central Park playgrounds, and gave New York State a 1,500-acre park ground on Long Island. And only a few days before he was seen "bounding," he had returned from a European study trip with plans for sanitary, low-rent, "model" tenements, such as the Rockefellers and the Metropolitan Life Insurance...
...hour at The Balsams, Dixville Notch, N. H. Ravenous tourists and contented residents were scooping vegetables out of their "bird's bath-tubs," calling for more butter and chattering happily all through the airy dining-hall. Back and forth between her table and the kitchen, plied Helen Albro Park of Brooklyn, whose summer as a waitress was drawing to a close. Soon she would be returning to Boston University to take up her junior-year courses. How good it would be to handle books again after stacks of trays and dishes...
...pressed the receiver tighter and tighter to her ear, Helen Park was more and more mystified. Some one was telling her she had to go to California the next week ... by airplane . . . stopping overnight in Cleveland, Chicago, Omaha, Wichita, Cheyenne, Salt Lake City ... all expenses paid . . . $50 spending money . . . See America First . . . glorious . . . winner . . . congratulations . . . 12,000 contestants . . . and a return ticket . . . who? . . . Cove? Kove? GOVE, Gove, GOVE? Lydia Pinkham? ... At last Helen Park remembered. She had seen a notice that, for the best 250-word letter by a New England college student or graduate telling...
...matter. Helen Park was flying to California. (Another winner: Margaret C. Sheehan, of Manchester, N. H., Trinity '19. Winners of the return flight from Los Angeles to Boston: Paul T. Wilson and Henry C. Fowler Jr., of Boston, seniors...
Died. Zalophus ("Buster") Californianus, 22, dean of sea-lions and headliner of the Battery Park Aquarium; in Manhattan, of coryza...