Word: parks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Central Park, Harry Truman stopped off at City Hall. When an usher told him that the "girls who work in the Mayor's office" would like to see him, the President replied: "I don't know why. I'm just the same as everybody else...
...Meadow. Perhaps a million (or so New York police estimated) had gathered in Central Park to hear the President. They stretched almost across the width of the park. But they were not stirred by the speech. The President said little he had not said before. As usual, he sounded as if he were reciting from a copybook, not too well-written. But this time the copybook had a new and very impressive binding. Against the background of the seapower in the Hudson and the airpower over Manhattan's skyscrapers, he restated U.S. foreign policy...
What a Change. Igor makes a great play of not being a snob. Sample: "I have just emerged from an air-conditioned suite of the Park Towers, where I was locked for 45 sacred minutes with their Royal Highnesses, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor...
...last of the ruling lions of the post-Civil War financial and speculative jungle, onetime clerk in Jay Cooke's famed banking house who married Cooke's daughter, went into partnership with his son, established an internationally known Philadelphia banking firm; in Elkins Park...
Sarah Lawrence College for girls was founded to extend progressive education to college age. It had few rules, no final exams, no required courses and little supervision. Residents of respectable nearby Lawrence Park used to charge Sarah Lawrence girls with having "too many Saturday night parties, too many bare legs and too many ukuleles." Smith and Radcliffe sniffed it off as an expensive (tuition: $1,700) and frivolous finishing school whose principal attraction was its nearness to Manhattan...