Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adelbogen, high in the Swiss Alps. For a passionate Alpinist most of Belgium is as flat as a hand but lusty Albert thought he knew a place. Only a few days earlier the Belgian Cabinet had set aside the cliffs near Marche-les-Dames as a national park. Marche-les-Dames-"The Walk of the Ladies"- got its name from 139 Noble Widows of Crusaders who in 1101 pooled their resources, built an abbey above those cliffs and retired there to spend the rest of their lives. King Albert knew that the cliffs were nearly 600 feet high, full...
Thus the Superintendents of Schools in Austria last week attempted to pick up the pieces and carry on ordinary life. In Vienna, too, children put on their sweaters to go skating in the Stadt Park. Cafés and cinemas could stay open. Police cleared the barbed wire barricades from the streets and out in the suburbs householders went back to their shell torn apartment houses. More than 1,000 men, women and children lay dead. The Nazis might strike on the morrow. Austria might have only a few weeks more of independence. A new world war might be brewing...
...Park, Ill., having slept through two birthdays, an attack of lobar pneumonia and the marriage and maternity of her first nurse, Patricia Maguire, 28, victim of lethargic encephalitis, last week ended her second year of sleeping by sleeping on. She has lately begun to sit up, eat solid food...
...story in his 20 years. He gathers his data from the complaint room, from the little Press table in the court room, from innumerable policemen, lawyers, court attendants, judges of his acquaintance. He makes copious notes, descends to his dungeon desk and telephones his office. Far downtown near Park Row one of four lightning-fast rewrite men takes Reporter Corrigan's tale, whips it into a precise, minutely detailed, colorless but accurate story. Page by page it is teletyped to the newspaper offices where again it is rewritten, whooped up, whittled down or thrown on the floor...
...talked of becoming a publisher. Finally he bowed to his father's wish, has been cramming spasmodically in Mellon National since 1931. He last made news when he and Lucius Beebe, famed japestering newsman, won a prize magnum of champagne offered by Manhattan's swank Central Park Casino for the first guests of the season to arrive by horse & sleigh. Dick Mellon, however, took to power from the start. He entered Mellon National immediately after he graduated from Princeton in 1922, was made an assistant cashier two years later, vice president five years later. Able, affable, handsome...