Word: parks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secret. As the telephone began to ring at Papago Park, the camp's tall, grey-haired commander, Colonel William A. Holden, knew for the first time that 25 prisoners, all ardent Nazis, had escaped under his nose. Guards soon discovered camouflaged holes in the fence. Then, two days after the break, they discovered a tunnel which opened in an outdoor coal shed, led 200 feet to the bank of a deep irrigation canal...
...certainly for the class to which I have the misfortune to belong. It is the educated middle class, in which many may be glad to escape to the new communities, which need not be celibate. Some will be on a religious basis, others devoted to research, et cetera. . . . The park surrounding the house may be turned into farms and gardens, to be worked by the inmates. In this way the institutions may be selfsupporting...
...Park Avenue Kitty Foyle. Arriving in the summer of 1935, she promptly had her named changed to Colby and was cast in Mary of Scotland. In the finished film, she scarcely appeared. After that she scarcely appeared in pictures like The Bride Walks Out, Wings of Mercy, Walking on Air, some Ginger Rogers films, a smattering of Bs. Anita had too many inhibitions to be adept at playing anyone except herself. After two and a half years of it she gave up, returned to New York -and became, for a time, a Park Avenue Kitty Foyle...
...examination at any time; for another, it is no secret that Washington was sorely irked by last year's race-track gambling of a billion dollars that might have gone into war bonds, and by the increase in war-plant absenteeism during Los Angeles' recent Hollywood Park meeting. It was a good bet, as most big-league club owners agreed, that baseball at least would carry...
...Turnstiles, the subway's girl-of-the-month (Sono Osato), and the search for her becomes a breathless, round-the-town, round-the-clock jamboree. With the other two sailors picking off girls en route, On the Town sings and dances, joshes and handsprings its way from Central Park to the Museum of Natural History, from Carnegie Hall to Times Square, from a flock of night spots to Coney Island. Wherever it goes, uptown or down, it shoves dullness off the curbstone...