Word: parks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Never Mind the Creed. At this point, good Baptist John D. Rockefeller Jr., who had admired Fosdick's fight, offered him the pastorate of the Park Avenue Baptist Church. Fosdick accepted- with conditions. The church must: 1) no longer require immersion; 2) grant membership to all Christians, regardless of creed; 3) build a new church in a less swank district; 4) pay the minister no more than $5,000. (Later, when the pressure of church work began to cut down his out side income, his salary was boosted close...
...deputy sheriff's badge, set up a benign personal government. By the mid-1920s Lost Cabin boasted concrete walks, a golf course, a skating rink, motion pictures, and an aviary stocked with cockatoos and other exotic birds. Many a tourist mistook its gates for those of Yellowstone Park, drove in, stayed to marvel...
...night Edwin hears strange music and is irresistibly drawn to a certain bridge in Brooklyn's Prospect Park. There, his brother's white-tied ghost rises from the water, and jazzily explains to the learned goof that Buzzy, star witness in a gangster murder, has been bumped off. The scholar, his double, must replace him at the Pelican, play upon the superstitious sensibilities of his killers, avenge his death by placing his fatal information in the hands of the D.A. (Otto Kruger). Just to help out in hard places, such as impersonating a great floorshow star when...
...Children. Trieste harbor is lovely and undamaged. The Kiwis (New Zealanders) park their tanks and trucks on the waterside, and enjoy the surf with Italian girls. In the town itself the streets are patrolled night & day by armed squads of Yugoslavs carrying machine guns and tripods, knives, pistols and clusters of grenades. Most of them are very young; some are only ten or twelve years old. Their tattered uniforms include British battle dress, captured German and Italian hand-me-downs. When not patrolling, most of them ramble around Trieste's downtown districts with their dirty-haired Yugoslav girls...
...prove it, he made a scientific expedition to Golden Gate Park to study the masses at play. "Flowery amazons, accompanied by fat pseudo-cowboys ride horseback along the beach. . . ." he wrote. "Girls on the beach try to free themselves from the remainder of their clothes. . . . Suddenly [my] attention was attracted by one of my neighbors flinging down the newspaper he had taken from his pocket...