Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago, a chill spell made firm the flooded tennis courts of the Park Avenue Skating Club. Grateful for the chance to exhibit her wares outdoors, Skater Vinson spun gracefully through the air, displayed startling designs to admirers. Finishing an elementary figure-eight, she suddenly teetered, screeched, bumped her bottom. Undamaged, Maribel Vinson rose, caressed her billowing skirts into place, twirled proudly...
...Philadelphia's Cornelius McGillicuddy ("Connie Mack") $200,000 plus two players for Slugger Foxx and Hurler Johnny Marcum. Next month Yawkey will probably pay Mack another $200,000 for Infielder McNair and Outfielder Cramer. With Foxx at first base, with his accurate home-run eye fixed on Fenway Park's short left-field fence, dopesters figure Boston the most likely outfit to topple the World Champion Detroit...
...language by listening to his landlady's children. He got a job with the John R. Keim mills in Buffalo, sold automobile parts to Henry Ford, went to work for Ford Motor Co. when Mr. Ford bought out John R. Keim, became production manager at the Highland Park plant. In 1921 he left Mr. Ford, in 1922 turned up at Chevrolet, became Chevrolet's president two years later. So well did he apply his Ford training to Chevrolet production that in 1927 more than a million Chevrolets were turned out and Mr. Ford had to scrap Model...
...Manhattan, as on preceding birthdays (TIME, Dec. 17, 1934), newshawks sought out beautiful, little white-whiskered Dr. Charles Giffen Pease on his 81st birthday. Dr. Pease obliged: "My friends, I can tell a poison addict at a glance. I go into the park to walk. I pick out the children who are receiving cocoa, a drink as noxious as the poisonous alcohol. How can I tell? By the degeneracy of the skin, and the tissue around the eyes. It is unfailing. 'Madam,' I say, 'your child is receiving cocoa.' 'Yes,' she replies...
...which I think is not so good as his utterances on the nature of our souls and the natural light and the like. And thence by water to White Hall and there saw King Charles at Chapel; but staid not to hear anything, but went to walk in the Park and there among others was pleased to meet my friend John Dryden who did talk to meet my friend John Dryden who did talk to me of the purpose of poetry that it was to "instruct delightfully" and I sought to draw him out to talk of his "Marriage...