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...length the proposed celebration of today as Navy Day. But the militaristic basis of the plan he concealed beneath a quite proper emphasis upon the peaceful achievements of the naval forces in exploration, charting, assisting commerce, mapping currents and winds; in sum, making the seas less the dreaded playground of unfamiliar forces...
...persons parking automobiles either in the private parking field or the Brighton playground off Western Avenue there will be a special entrance through the wire fence at Gate 9 directly into Soldiers Field. Persons parking cars on the Metropolitan Parkway in Brighton may enter through Gate 14 at the southwest corner of the field or through Gate 19 opposite the Newell Boat House on the northeast side of the field...
Feet of Clay. When Cecil de Mille and his friends get whirling around "society's playground," the unfortunate observer can fortify himself with only one reflection. He is watching motion pictures at their worst. Probably Mr. de Mille would reply that he knows his is a dime novel edition of the social register but that is what the people want. If the people want it, they certainly get it in the first part of Feet of Clay. By the time the characters slip into purgatory, society's playground is ploughed for miles around by the difficulties encountered by a woman...
This recalls again the statement made some years ago to the effect that the only future to which New England could look forward was that of being the playground of the nation, as railroad folders alluringly express it. The Green and White Mountains so cut up the terrain that large scale agriculture is impossible; the natural water power facilities will soon be surpassed by those developed by other districts; and the geographical location is not central enough to exert a powerful effect on the course of national trade. So say the ravens...
...yond old playground, fit spot whereon to commemorate the manliness which there was nurtured, shall soon rise, a noble monument which for generations will give convincing answer to such shallow doubts: for over its gates will be written: "In memory of the sons of Harvard who died for their country." The future of the University will not be unworthy of its past...