Word: parks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first volume is announced for September publication by Harcourt Brace & Co., who brought out Papini's Life of Christ. The collection is open to all creeds and all varieties thereof. Readers of TIME who desire to nominate sermons should address Dr. New ton at 76th Street and Central Park West, Manhattan...
...weeks ago Duchess, an elephant presented by the late Mr. P. T. Barnum to the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, died of what newspapers reported to be an inflammation of the bowels caused by eating peanuts. It occurred to Dr. Antoine Kolodny of the University of Illinois College of Medicine to make a post-mortem examination. The body of the elephant, which weighed some 3,000 pounds, had been transferred for destruction to a plant in Gary, Ind. Arming himself with a pair of rubber hip-boots and a ten-inch butcher knife, Dr. Kolodny, accompanied by two students, went...
Eleven starters competed for the Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park. At 4 o'clock on a summery afternoon the bugle blew and 50,000 eyes turned to the gate from the paddock to watch the procession up the track. At the starting post Harry F. Sinclair's Mad Play, the favorite, Sande up, drew inside position. Up shot the barrier with a deafening roar from the stands as the horses simultaneously broke to a splendid start. Mad Play gained an immediate lead by saving ground in rounding the first turn. Hard pressed for the whole 1⅛ miles...
...Columbia University, whift the grinning statue of the Great God Pan leered at the audience under the torrid moon. But that space has become too congested, Now the plangent tones of the cornet, the barbaric beatings of the bass-drums call New Yorkers to the Mall in Central Park every Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday evening. Forty thousand attended the first concert. A new stand and sounding board, the gift of Elkan Naumberg, sends the sound for hundreds of yards. The expenses are borne by Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Guggenheim and Mr. and Mrs. Murry Guggenheim. The compositions range...
...State procession of six carriages then proceeded from the station to Hyde Park Corner, down Constitutional Hill to Buckingham Palace. The route was lined with soldiers and police, behind whose cordons were tens of thousands of cheering spectators. "Little Italy" (Italian colony in London) was there, waving the Italian tricolor and shouting "Viva il Re" and "Viva Savoia." Inside the Palace Court was drawn up a guard of honor composed of the Yeomen of the Guard (Beefeaters) dressed in their picturesque Tudor uniforms...