Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Steaming for Hyde Park on the Potomac, the President was delayed for 14 hours by fog in the Cape Cod Canal, gave his staff ashore quite a turn...
...park bench Widow Becker chatted with Marie Ramache Lambert, who said she was lonely and asked Widow Becker to come up some time and do some needlework. Mme Lambert made a will leaving 400,000 francs to Widow Becker, died...
Last week at Inglewood, 25 minutes from Hollywood, the new track opened. In spite of petitions by churches and reform groups, a weekday crowd of 40,000 streamed into elegant Hollywood Park, wagered $512,000 on eight races...
...Hollywood Gold Cup Handicap (for three-year-olds and up), and a special $50,000 race between Herbert M. Woolf's Lawrin, Kentucky Derby winner, and William du Pont's Dauber, Preakness winner, for the "three-year-old championship" of the year. Missing from Hollywood Park's stalls last week were Charles S. Howard's Seabiscuit and Maxwell Howard's Stagehand, the two outstanding California performers last winter, who were both going to Suffolk Downs instead for next fortnight's $50,000 Massachusetts Handicap...
Some years ago a scientist walked out into a Baltimore park to take a picture. His fertile brain and nimble hands had produced a "fisheye lens," a hollow hemisphere of glass filled with liquid, which would focus a sweep of 180° on one plate. He decided to place himself beneath a bridge, photograph the underside of the bridge's arch from horizon to horizon. By the time he had finished setting up his mysterious-looking device, he had attracted a large crowd of gawpers. He snapped his picture, looked up with an expression of horror, cried...