Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Giulia Morosini was the only woman allowed to drive three horses abreast in Central Park. They were hitched to a high blue dogcart. She wore a blue driving habit and their harness was of blue kid to match, trimmed with solid silver. One day a saddle horse bolted with her in the Park. She was rescued by Mounted Policeman Arthur M. Werner, whom she promptly married. In 1916 ex-Policeman Werner tried to make her raise his allowance from $75,000 to $100,000 a year. She kicked him out of the house, had the marriage annulled...
...Third Baseman Marvin Owen, whose home run four days earlier had started the International League Bears on their victorious way for the Little World Series against the Minneapolis Millers, American Association pennant winners. Another home run now by Baseman Owen, in the Millers' home park, would put the Bears ahead, give them the series, four games to two. Owen watched one ball go by, drew back for the second. Crack! Lame Woody Jenson watched the ball sail high above the right field fence, hobbled home. A boy who had scrambled down from the fence when the ball came...
...Boston Elevated will run subway trains through the Stadium station commencing with the train that leaves the Park Street station at 13.52 o'clock...
...doorbell at the home of the three de Andrade brothers. It was answered by their Hungarian butler. Three pro-Machado bravos pushed him aside, dashed upstairs, murdered Brother Gonzalo Freyre de Andrade, Representative; Brother Guillermo, attorney; and Brother Leopoldo, engineer. Their bodies were found in a Country Club Park ditch...
Every San Franciscan knows the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, an imposing colonnade in Lincoln Park. In it was exposed last week an exhibition of much local importance, the first California showing of a native though wandering son, Sculptor Isamu Noguchi...