Word: parks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...year-old Dutch bell of Manhattan's Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas pealed for Juliana. Aboard the Dutch liner Statendam in Manhattan harbor, Knickerbocker notables toasted her name and "the truly Dutch name of President Roosevelt" at an eleven-course Dutch dinner. At the Netherlands Club in Gramercy Park, the Royal Dutch wedding caused even the most staid members to down thimbleful after thimbleful of scorching Holland...
Months ago the Department of the Interior was proud to accept for Yosemite National Park Museum a collection of 108 paintings by the late Christian Jorgensen. the Norwegian-born artist largely responsible for the acquisition of Yosemite Valley as a National Park (TIME. Dec. 28). This week Manhattan's Newhouse Galleries opened an exhibition of 14 large landscapes, the first of a series of shows honoring the 100th Anniversary of a far better painter, directly responsible for the entire program of U. S. national parks: Thomas Moran...
...came back from the Yellowstone with a tremendous canvas of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone seen through a romantic mist. Congress voted $10,000 to buy it and hung the canvas in the Senate Lobby, where it is today. In 1872 Yellowstone Valley became the first National Park, and Thomas Moran acquired the nickname that stuck to him for the rest of his life: Thomas ("Yellowstone") Moran...
Died, Andrew Bernhard Charles Dohrmann, 68, potent San Francisco department store tycoon (The Emporium), founder of the city's Community Chest, majority stockholder in Yosemite Park concessions; of heart disease; in San Francisco...
These assume a residence in your House or Club in Cambridge. We will begin with your arrival from New York--where you live, or where you have frittered away the last night of the Christmas recess on your way back from Atlanta--Oak Park-Kalamazoo-Denver. You are in your room and you are unpacking your bags. You see a book entitled "Integral Functions of the Complex Variable"--or, "The Concept of Nature in Nineteenth Century Poetry". A pang of scholastic remorse seizes you. Will you begin here and now to study it? Not if the Vagabond's well-considered...