Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Adoniram Judson Wells Jr., aged 17, of Highland Park, Ill., graduate of Deerfield-Shields Township High School. Wells was valedictorian of his class, was active in school publications, dramatics, and track, and has shown originality in his chemistry laboratory at home...
...Vincent Gebardi, her blonde hair braided and wrapped around her head halo-fashion, teed off at Chicago's Lincoln Park in the first round of the Illinois Women's Public Parks golf tournament. In wider Chicago circles Mrs. Gebardi is known as "The Blonde Alibi," and wife of "Machine Gun Jack" McGurn, Public Enemy No. 4. Gangster Vincent Gebardi (alias "Jack McGurn") was suspected of participating in the 1929 St. Valentine's Day Massacre. Pretty Louise Rolfe, just out of high school, took the witness stand at his trial, swore that he had been with her in a hotel...
...olds and up, in which Cavalcade may be well enough to run. Mr. Whitney's 6-year-old Equipoise, who has earnings of $333,960 to his credit, is eligible for the race but will be pointed instead for the $100,000 race to be run at Santa Anita Park in California next winter...
This spring there was a novelty to be seen at a north London amusement park. It was no great success, but cockneys with a sixpenny bit could get into a tent and gawp at a gaunt, hollow-eyed woman with stringy dark hair sitting in a barrel. She was billed as "The Fasting Woman." Last week the bony body of the Fasting Woman lay behind a screen in the charity ward of a London hospital. A card was clipped over her bed: "NORINE LATTIMORE. . . . Born: Doughty St., London 1894. . . . Cause of death: cancer. . . ." Thus ended the career of Dolores...
...white peacock.* There was some excuse for the confusion. Both were famed at the same time. Both were tall, beautiful and British. Both had been models and neither was christened Dolores. But Kathleen Marie Rose, the Dolores of the Follies, has never caused a suicide, slept on a park bench, married a Negro, done a fasting act in a barrel. On her retirement from the stage she married an art collector named William Tudor Wilkinson, today lives comfortably in Paris...