Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just about the time when Mr. Howard Chandler Christy's blindness is alleged to have been overcome, and his sight restored through Christian Science, Dr. Park Lewis of Buffalo, N. Y., a noted ophthalmologist, was busy with the formation of an organization now known as the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness. Dr. Park Lewis is vice president of both this Society and the International Association for Prevention of Blindness which he was active in establishing at The Hague in 1929. We have asked him to comment on the letter of Mr. B. Palmer Lewis, and it occurs...
...afternoon last week June Ebdom took the little mare for a workout. They had just started down the bridle path in Flushing's Kissena Park when suddenly Nightingale reared, pawed the air, flopped down in the path. Scared June Ebdom kited back to the stables. "Frenchy" Loudoux sped up just in time to perform a few midwifely duties for Nightingale, before a knot of gaping WPA workers. In three minutes a spindly colt was sprawled on the grass beside her. Rallying quickly, the mare walked to the stables with her foal following in a rumble seat. Loudoux swore that...
Said Wheaton College's President John Edgar Park: "He has done a delightfully artistic job at Smith." Complained Wellesley's youthful Mildred Helen McAfee: "Dr. Neilson is constantly held up to us as a shining example!" Revealed Andover's Headmaster Claude Fuess, who studied English under Dr. Neilson at Columbia: "I remember when he did not think so much of girl students. In fact, he discouraged them by keeping his office in a constant fog of smoke." Radcliffe's Ada Louise Comstock, who once served as Smith's dean, recalled a Neilson lecture...
Best dances: Astaire solo in a mechanistic routine in the ship's engine room; Astaire & Rogers plus a masked chorus from which she is almost indistinguishable; Astaire & Rogers on roller skates in Central Park. Best tunes in the slick George & Ira Gershwin score: They All Laughed, They Can't Take That Away From Me, Let's Call The Whole Thing...
...longest luncheon sessions on convention records. From one o'clock to four, while a thunderstorm swept hail over the Capital, members watched their cigaret butts accumulate, groped to formulate ideas out of their resentment at the long disregarded law which the Supreme Court had upheld. Across Lafayette Park in the White House, President Roosevelt was giving his last press conference before entraining for New Orleans (see p. 15). At the convention tables, the Chamber-men to whom he had refused for the third successive year to send any greeting throbbed with approval as President B. C. Heacock of Caterpillar...