Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Public Lands Committee was shocked and delighted. Senator Key Pittman reflected: "An instance of this kind is so extraordinary . . . very serious matter . . . I can't see how. . . ." The reason the imaginary employes were not discovered sooner, according to Interior Department investigators, was that the Park Service, short of real employes, was several months behind in its books. The dream camp was finally found, Mr. Burlew revealed modestly, when Reno Stitely, grown devil-may-care, put his imaginary men on actual rolls paid by the Interior Department. The special investigators who finally caught Reno Stitely told the committee that...
...Wotton, Izaak Walton's fishing companion, whose The Elements of Architecture defined good building as "commoditie, firmeness and delight." A "needs" section of the exhibit contained nothing less than a scheme for remodeling London, notable for its acceptance of the present radiating arterial roads and the insertion of park spaces between them so that a series of "green wedges" would penetrate almost to the centre of the city...
...Raymond Lee Ditmars, famed herpetologist of the New York Zoological Park ("Bronx Zoo"), has discovered that vampire bats from the American tropics do not, as commonly supposed, suck blood from the animals on which they feed. They lap it up, the tongue darting in & out of the wound four times a second. When Dr. Ditmars brought back four vampires from Trinidad, it seemed a good chance for scientists to check another theory-that the bat's saliva contains some substance which prevents blood from coagulating and so keeps the nutrient liquid flowing freely...
...That Glitters is a waggish yarn about the peccadillos of Manhattan bluebloods and, according to rumor, based on fact. Playboy Muggy Williams swears to nail Mrs. Townsend's hide to his barn door because she insulted his fiancée. He hires a senorita from a Park Avenue brothel to pose as a Spanish countess. Promptly, Mrs. Townsend plans a dinner in her honor, where the countess, according to Muggy's plans will disgrace the dowager with a strip-tease act. The hitch comes when one of Muggy's best friends, three hours before the stripping, announces...
That Brasher's original paintings might be together forever, he and Nephew Philip, the artist's business aid, negotiated an agreement with Connecticut's State Park & Forest Commission in 1934: Brasher would give his paintings; the State would within two years build a wheel-shaped gallery for them in Kent Falls State Park. Month ago, the museum not having been built according to the agreement, Philip Brasher drove to Hartford, declared the paintings forfeit to the artist. Few days later he & wife trundled them down to Washington, where this week, in the National Geographic's large...