Word: parham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author Herbert George Wells, onetime first-class novelist and short-story writer, is now propagandist perennial. Lately his novel-pamphlets have preached the necessity of peace. The Autocracy of Mr. Parham, besides much Wellsian argumentation many Wellsian men of straw, gives Author Wells's parable of what will happen to the world if old-fashioned people remain in control of it. Few present-day Wells readers will be surprised that the story proper begins on Page 90, that all before that is argument, exposition, setting the text...
...Parham, supercilious Cambridge don, meets Sir Bussy Woodcock, self-made millionaire, at a dinner. They are mutually fascinated by each other's queerness. They become occasional companions though never intimates. Sir Bussy's intellect is insatiable, restless; he has the money to gratify his curiosity. When he decides to investigate spiritualism, he does it thoroughly, holding seances in specially-constructed laboratories. At one of these seances, "ectoplasm" from the medium takes independent shape, absorbs Mr. Parham, announces itself as the Lord Paramount, savior-dictator of England. Sir Bussy and his skeptical companions acknowledge the dictator, do his bidding...
HARVARD ARMY Chase 115-1b. class Momm Klein 125-1b. class Stroker Minis 135-1b. class Fisher Levine 145-1b. class Smellow Robertson 155-1b. class Packard Solano 165-1b. class Bardley Newhart 175-1b. class Murrell Warner Unlimited Parham...
Cadet Murrell, whose steady line-crashing last fall was an effective complement of Cagle's flashy runs, will try grips in the 175-pound class with C. D. Newhart '31, substitute tackle on the 1929 University eleven; and in the unlimited class, Parham, second string Army tackle, will engage Captain Nathaniel Warner '31, center on the second University football squad. Both men now weigh about 190 pounds, and an interesting encounter is expected...
...Cadet Parham, appointed from Chicago by Negro Congressman Oscar De Priest, entered the Academy last summer (TIME, July 15). Almost at once he fell behind his class in mathematics (algebra and geometry). Once when he was about to resign Congressman De Priest came to see him, urged him to "stick it out." He started special coaching, stopped after a week. His grades in mathematics were so consistently low that his classmates suspected he was "boning foundation" (inviting discharge by failing to work). They felt that, though there was no hazing, no discrimination, he would not have entered the Academy...