Word: parks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Greek guerrillas to surrender their arms, the fighting mounted to a furious climax. All day, heavy, devastating shelling from British 25-pounders and guerrilla 75-mm. guns crisscrossed between British headquarters at the eastern foot of the Acropolis and the ELAS citadels in the Stadium area, in the park east of the Arch of Hadrian and the Temple of Zeus. Both sides were still trying hard not to damage monuments that had survived 2,000 years of human havoc. As the eighth bloody day ended, ELAS still held the port of Piraeus (the Allied food ships had anchored, for safety...
...Elysian Field. The blissfully named Elysian Park Street Railway Co. was typical. Organized to sell lots in then suburban Elysian Park, the company had one horse-drawn car. Once the only driver said: "The owners furnished the horse and I the feed. My pay was $4 a week and all I took in ... about 10? a day. I had a banjo and was learning to play. I would start from one end of the line and busy myself with my banjo. The horse stopped whenever he found good grazing...
...Glendale, Calif, minister was recently all hot and bothered over an alleged cuss word said to have been uttered, muttered or sputtered by President Roosevelt when voting at Hyde Park. The minister is reported to have written the President suggesting or demanding an apology. The good man is more agitated and aggrieved over the matter than God himself, who could easily have punished F.D.R. by electing the other fellow...
After the ensuing stampede, and after promising to make a park of the ruined lot and put a bust of Mr. Wickel in it, Edwards presented mild, bespectacled, disappointed Mr. Wickel with a check for $1,000. But there was no bank name on the check. Nevertheless, Mr. Wickel finally cashed it, at his own bank:-and received $1,000 in Confederate money. Asking for something more negotiable, he got a 1,400-lb. safe containing a little less than half of a $1,000 bill...
...well-washed piety" can offer convincing proof, concludes Dr. Bell. "The veteran does not need readjustment soothing syrup, coddling, flattery; he needs to be told . . . that if he has any real manhood in him he will regard America as something more than a glorified factory, movie house, ball park and corner drugstore. He needs churches which make it clear that they care about him . . . that the things that really matter ... lie beyond his untrained cognizance . . . that things seen are temporal, relative, secondary; that it is the unseen which is eternal, absolute, primary...