Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week's end came the annual change which has punctuated his life these 34 years past. At his home fronting on the park-a two-story stucco house with a lawn which the Senator diligently mows, with shrubs which he diligently clips- Mrs. Norris began wrapping the comfortable old-fashioned furniture in sheets, a handy man began nailing up the shutters. Only one thing was unusual. When the Norrises went to the railroad station and boarded a train on the Burlington, their tickets read not to Washington, D. C. but to Lincoln, Neb. George Norris was going this time...
Three days before Christmas the "Greatest Secretary of the Treasury since Alexander Hamilton" sent a letter to President Roosevelt by way of his uncle, Chairman Frederic A. Delano of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission: "Over a period of many years," said 81-year-old Mr. Mellon, "I have been acquiring important and rare paintings and sculpture with the idea that ultimately they would become the property of the people of the United States." His paintings and sculpture, said Mr. Mellon, included valuable purchases from Leningrad's Hermitage Museum, a fact he had long denied. There was also...
Back in Manhattan, Mr. Hoving rented a 15-room Park Avenue apartment for himself and Mrs. Hoving, the former Mary Osgood Field, became vice president of Associated and chairman of its smart Fifth Avenue store. Lord & Taylor. Last week Mr. Knauth announced that "owing to increased duties devolving around the central office," Chairman Hoving of Lord & Taylor would become president as well, succeeding Joseph E. Pridday, who will be an associated vice president...
...race was the Christmas Stakes, feature of the first day of the winter meeting at Santa Anita Park, near Los Angeles. A crowd of 40,000, including not only cinema notables but scores of leading turf people from all over the country, watched Goldeneye's victory. It was the second $5,000 Christmas Stakes purse in a row for his owner, Albert Anthony Baroni, whose Top Row, after winning it last year, went on to win the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap in February...
Captured, placed in a glass jar and named Mickey, the singing mouse became the wonder & delight of school and neighborhood. Even newshawks admitted after an audition that it actually sang. When Assistant Director Robert Bean of the Chicago Zoological Park called, it failed to perform. Nonetheless Director Bean, who had heard of singing mice before, offered $150 for it. Dr. Wilfred H. Osgood, zoology curator of the Field Museum of Natural History, also said he had heard of singing mice, though he had never seen one. Declared University of Chicago's Dr. Maud Slye, famed cancer experimenter: "I have...