Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Roosevelt's own church is small vine-clad St. James in Hyde Park. There he attends frequently, if not regularly, is senior warden and some years ago received from Bishop Manning a certificate in honor of his having completed 25 consecutive years as vestryman...
...children to throw off their marriage vows so lightly by Rt. Rev. James Edward Freeman, Bishop of Washington who is far too politic to antagonize the White House. Nor did Rt. Rev. William Thomas Manning. Bishop of New York, in whose diocese lies the President's own Hyde Park, speak out as he once did against the divorce of the late Mrs. 0. H. P. Belmont. The letter-writer to the Living Church who said what he thought needed to be said was Rt. Rev. Charles Fiske, 66, Bishop of Central New York, high churchman and ardent Democrat...
...bought the cemetery and the remains of Norton I were removed to a vault. Last week San Franciscans, most of whom knew of the mad old man, his plumed silk hat and gold-ferruled cane only by hearsay, turned out by the hundreds to rebury him at Woodlawn Memorial Park in San Mateo County...
...crowded little houses they were always in the way. Their pathetic attempts to make themselves useful were brusquely disregarded. They had nothing to do. They were very lonely. Even to see each other at lengthy intervals they had to sneak off, take wearisome bus rides, sit shivering on park benches because they had no money, nowhere to go. When Father Cooper caught a chill and died because his daughter-in-law was too stingy to get a doctor, his old wife tried to take it well. She tried to mean it when she said: "At least he didn...
...descending to particulars, "Mitch" Hepburn took over from below Canada's frontier a few Roosevelt catch phrases such as "We are for the forgotten man!", but the bulk of his campaigning was sheer Canadian hayseed vituperation. Across from his farmhouse "Mitch" Hepburn had established a 15-acre car park and on big nights as many as 20,000 farmer constituents arrived to roar "Good boy, Mitch!" as he berated not only provincial Conservatives but the Dominion Government of rich and pious Conservative Premier Richard Bedford Bennett...