Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whoooooo bellowed the steamboat whistles. "Hey, look!" yelled the crowd. "Looka yonder! Hyeh they come!" The big barge nosed across the yellow water toward the brown river bank at the edge of Jefferson Davis Park. "Great Lawd, look at the Niggers on those cotton bales." guffawed the crowd. "Naked as jay-birds. What they supposed to be, Egyptian slaves or something? It says here in the program: 'Egyptian Pageant, Memphis on the Nile in the Time of Menes, First Prince of Memphis...
...people were not feeling any too well when King Frank and Queen Octavia opened the civic celebration with their triumphal landing at Jefferson Davis Park. Unofficially, the "South's greatest party" had started night before. A host of otherwise solid citizens had dressed up in their dinner jackets and had taken their wives, sweethearts and daughters to a prize fight at Ellis Auditorium between somebody called Eddie Wolfe and a pug named Harry Dublinsky. To lend tone to the affair, Jack Dempsey was picking his nose in the ring and acting as referee. After Mr. Dublinsky and Mr. Wolfe...
Died. Betty, aged 10 days, fourth orangutan born in the U. S. (TIME, May 14); of starvation when maternal nervousness stopped her mother Nancy's flow of milk; in Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo. Fiercely protective like all orangutan mothers, Nancy would not let zoomen touch the baby, tried to keep it alive with mouthfuls of milk from...
...Harvard dropped into fourth place in the League over the weekend. The Crusaders can't be entirely blamed in this, the trouble being the Cornell, Columbia, and Pennsylvania all won board to chase one of the circuit clouts out in Worcester. Fitton Field is something of a homerun ball park. There are obstacles in both left and right fields...
...Park Theatre, now playing "The Travelling Salesman." 8 p.m. Matinee Wednesday and Saturday...