Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boys were in earnest. They did when plaster spurted from the walls of buildings and bullets buzzed in their ears. Eight people were killed instantly. A little child had his jaw blown away. A young man died in his mother's arms. One proud father went out to the park to see his son march with the machine gun company. He fell with a bullet through the lungs. It was different from shooting on the range. A white-faced machine gunner dropped his piece, fled screaming in hysterics...
Last week, with the Black Horse Troop in solemn attendance and a group of First Citizens as special guests, the Chicago Historical Society opened to the public its spic & span new $1,000,000 Colonial edifice in Lincoln Park...
...Yorkers were not surprised at Charitarian Straus's participation. Carrying on his late great father's good works, Mr. Straus, onetime State Senator and a leader in the U. S. Zionist movement, has long led a civic-minded group of park planners...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, his face relaxed in the easy grin that he had flashed at millions of his countrymen from the back platform of his campaigning trains, was easing himself down the steps of the old Hyde Park town hall. He had just voted for himself for 32nd President of the U. S. With him was a cortege of newspapermen, his wife and his son Elliott. Mrs. Higgins is a neighbor of the Squire of Krum Elbow. Everyone laughed at his question which was thoroughly facetious. Mrs. Higgins' sons are 9 and 7. "I lost five pounds...
...officer; and Roland J. Blair who, like Pilot Van Orman, works for Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp.) There was white-shocked Capt. Horace B. Wild, 61, who 40 years ago exhibited two 'chute-jumping goats and later (1905) became the dare-devil aeronaut of Chicago's "White City" amusement park. His eyes are still red and watery from a 1910 crash which all but cost him his sight. With him was Roy Knabenshue who barnstormed for years with Capt. Wild in their dangerous little "rubber cows" (small dirigibles...