Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week President-elect Roosevelt was back at his home-away-from-home, Warm Springs, Ga. There he was to pick his Cabinet before going off on Vincent Astor's Nourmahal for a fishing trip in Florida waters. The shank of February was to be spent either at Hyde Park or in the Capital itself at the Townsend home on Massachusetts Avenue. After that-the Inaugural, plans for which had grown so lavish last week that it was going to take General Pershing to lead the parade...
...Wallace Crane, wife of the president of the Hamilton National Bank, shoots a man who comes to see her at her Park Avenue apartment. Margot Hale, an actress, decides to shield her friend, even at the risk of ruining her career. An ambitious playwright, Philip Elton, finds the situation almost identical with the circumstances at the climax of a play he is reading to Miss Hale. The obvious alibi is given to the police--they were rehearsing and "she didn't know it was loaded." A garrulous doorman (who once procured a chiropractor when an obstetrician was needed) arouses...
Problem: what is the proper deportment when one meets an enraged lion at one's elbow at a formal dance? Hollywood, the nation's mind, sets itself to solve this riddle in the current offering at the University, "Central Park," and in the process answers a thousand other equally important questions of deportment that Emily Post passed by. It takes some 17 corpses, an armored car with no end of gangsters, a lunatic, and a number of amiable and stupid minions of the law, but the answers are all there in the end. And so are Joan Blondell, the wise...
...impossible to associate such cheap tactics with one whose conduct heretofore was strictly noblesse oblige. A characteristic prodigality has always been the Prince's distinguishing trait. A good illustration of this was the time when, having only fifteen dollars between him and the park bench, he dined on caviar. Strassbourgh goose liver, and champagne to the tune of twelve dollars, left a three dollar tip, and then stalked royally out without a cent in his pocket...
Missouri. What sort of Governor Democrat Guy Brasneld Park, 60, will make, few citizens knew last week because he had been presented to them only three weeks before the election. When Nominee Francis Murray Wilson suddenly died in the midst of the campaign, Boss Tom Pendergast of Kansas City picked Judge. Park, Nominee Wilson's old friend and neighbor, off the circuit bench to fill his place...