Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grocery store, bicycle shop and inn, Donal Buckley was interned in Britain during the War after fighting bravely in the defense of the Postoffice during Dublin's Easter rebellion in 1916. He speaks nothing but Gaelic whenever possible, refuses to live in the Viceregal Lodge in Phoenix Park, will wear no English clothes, sit on no English chair. He prefers to be known by his Gaelic name, Domnhall Ua Buachalla, but will answer to Donal, and insists that his office is not that of a Sassenach governor general, but a good Gaelic Seanascal...
...lodge for avoiding the heat), it was famed for The Garden of Ten Thousand Trees and a waterfall that gave the illusion of flowing over jade and breaking into a spray of pearls. The Emperor and his court hunted deer and boar in the rolling hills of its great park while the imperial ladies went boating on its lotus-covered lakes in barges. When the great Kang Hsi, sometimes rated above his contemporaries Louis XIV and Peter the Great, built it and moved in for the summer, the road from Peking was crowded. Wagons bringing supplies to the Palace flew...
...fist fight. At Singapore, he maintains a completely stocked base for his expeditions. Throughout the Malay Peninsula he has native scouts who report to him the unexpected appearance of any rare or curious creature from the deep jungle. In Manhattan, where he has a handsome apartment in the Park Central Hotel, he keeps no pets of any kind...
National League. Experts who last year picked the Giants to finish near the bottom of the National League had by last week voiced insubstantial guesses for 1934. After a month of training at Miami's Flamingo Park Polo Field the New York Giants last week appeared fatigued as they started toward their own Polo Grounds-named for the team's first playing field near Central Park. A livelier ball should militate against their winning pennant & World Series again this year. Manager Bill Terry's only change in a team built around four pitchers (Hubbell, Schumacher, Fitzsimmons, Parmelee...
American League. Most discussed team of the year was the Boston Red Sox. Owner Tom Yawkey spent $750,000 improving Fenway Park without waiting to see how his new and costly outfit would function. Most notable addition to the Red Sox this year is Pitcher Robert Moses (''Lefty'') Grove, whose arm last week was still too sore for use. At Sarasota, Manager Bucky Harris' only training rule was "No Swimming...