Word: parks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...original Adelita had become matronly Adela Velarde de Perez, a secretary in a Chapultepec Park museum. A delegate to the Congress of Veterans of the Revolution, her only part in the fuss over her young namesake was to watch the parade from a crowded grandstand. It had been a long time since the bashful sergeant died in the streets of Torre...
...Paul's, Westminster and many another church rang out in clangorous rejoicing. Stock-exchange members stopped their trading to sing God Save the King', the official 41-gun salute decreed for the birth of a royal heir boomed forth from the Tower of London and Hyde Park. Even in Norfolk, Va., Britain's battleship, Duke of York, fired an extra 21-gun salute in honor of Britain's baby, and was answered in kind by half a dozen U.S. vessels. In Manhattan, Gimbels department store advertised a coroneted doll, holding a baby doll-"Liz herself...
...stood guard over him while the other returned to the street and held up Frederick G. Torrey '49 and his date, Martha Bixier. When they were brought into the park, $19 in cash was taken by the robbers, who departed with a warning to the trio to remain for five minutes and to say nothing about the stickup...
...sheet shows a fine selection for the discriminating. The Locke Ober Cafe, although probably packed to the last table tomorrow night, is one of the best known of Boston dining places. If you care to climb a flight of stairs and push a bit for a good steak, Durgin Park is the place...
Restaurants, like Durgin-Park, that handle customers on a the-harder-you-push-the-sooner-you-eat basis, have been deluged with applications for tables which they have had to refuse...