Word: parks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same in Washington, in the thousands on thousands of grief-wrung faces which walled the caisson's grim progression with prayers and with tears. It was the same on Sunday morning in the gentle landscape at Hyde Park, when the burial service of the Episcopal Church spoke its old, strong, quiet words of farewell; and it was the same at that later moment when all save the gravemen were withdrawn and reporters, in awe-felt hiding, saw how a brave woman, a widow, returned, and watched over the grave alone, until the grave was filled...
...Hyde Park. That night, aboard a special train again, the President's body traveled his old route, along the Pennsylvania Railroad's main line through Philadelphia, and into Manhattan; then across Hell Gate and up the New York Central's Hudson division to Hyde Park...
...custom, Bernard M. Baruch, 74, sat on a park bench one day last week -this time in London. He was not, as he usually is when sitting on his park bench in Washington, D.C., "in" to reporters. He would talk to only one: a man from Stars & Stripes. Corporal A. Victor Lasky and Baruch sat chatting together for a while, continued the conversation in Baruch's plush Claridge suite. When the phone rang (it was Churchill calling), Baruch, friend of the Prime Minister for 25 years, begged off for the moment. For Bernie Baruch had a point he wanted...
...scene was Toronto's Algonquin Park, heavily infested with budworm moths. City officials first gave the park a thorough DDT spraying by autogiro, then counted the survivors. Results: the deadly chemical killed not only the moths and other insects, but practically all invertebrates, especially crayfish; many minnows; some trout (those that ate poisoned insects); more than half of the snakes and frogs. It also damaged a few broad-leaved trees. But the census takers noted, with pleased surprise, that birds, chipmunks, mice, beaver and deer in the park were apparently unharmed...
...London Times, which meticulously records the first cuckoos in Hyde Park and the first primroses in Kew, chronicled another notable event: the first real ice cream since the war began. Hitherto the Government permitted Britons to trifle with limited quantities of an ersatz product made with powdered milk. Last week's relaxation of all bans moved the Times to moralize magnificently...