Word: parks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Kathleen Norris presided, Madame Schumann-Heink sang, Maud Wood Park spoke and the audience gave a tremendous ovation to Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks, who appeared with her husband. She got up in front of the microphone, in pink, saying...
Tulane University was founded in 1834. For a long time it was the only important school of the South. In 1886 came Newcomb Memorial College for Girls; in 1911 Catholic Loyola University. These schools lie on pleasant adjacent campuses on the city's outskirts, opposite splendid Audubon Park, which in turn stretches between St. Charles Street and the Mississippi...
...guessed he would have his daily shoeshine (he is an engaged man). Hailing a bootblack, he seated himself on-a park bench. Thought waves began to dizzy him. Some strange association of ideas was rising up his spine. A man came and sat next to him-very agitated-on the park bench ... on the bench . . . bench. Of course, a "bench" was a symbolical term for a branch of the Government. He furtively slipped his hand under the seat, felt a piece of adhesive tape. The tape was supporting some small, cold, metallic object. He wrenched it loose, the Evening World...
...meetings which the Union has been giving during the winter. The previous meetings of this kind have been devoted to football, track, crew and tennis. The new meeting will be like that of last year, which was devoted to the Southwest, when pictures were shown of Zion National Park and the Grand Canyon. The purpose of the pictures to be shown on the 31st is to give members of the Union information on possibilities of summer vacations in the West...
Films will be shown of trout fishing in Glacier Park, climbing Mount Ranier, and of the wild life of Yellowstone Park. Dean Lobdell of M. I. T. has said that they are the most beautiful pictures of wild country that he has ever seen. In addition there will be a Barold Lloyd comedy entitled "Never Weaken", and the whole performance will be supplemented by music...