Word: parker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Suzy Parker, 25 or thereabouts, was a rising Hollywood star. She was tall, and had what Brooklyn-bred Hollywood folks call a good built. Her soft auburn hair and her cool, beautiful face decorated fashion magazine covers in the days when she was earning a reported $100,000 a year as a model. More than that. Suzy was a smart girl with a fondness for the kind of glib crack that sends fan magazine writers fluttering to their typewriters, and she even had a small flair for acting (Ten North Frederick-TIME...
...sophisticated Suzy Parker loved to give reporters a hard time. She would open an interview by pointing out that the initials of her real name, Cecilia Rene Ann Parker, form an earthy word that has sometimes been used to describe Suzy's way with the truth. ("I always tell the truth, but today's truth might not be tomorrow's.") She regaled newsmen with the information that she was born in Texas (of a poor family), in Virginia (of a first family), or in Florida (of a bourgeois family). Best of all. Suzy was always known...
Record. In Dayton, called upon to read the minutes of the last meeting of the Third Street Baptist Church's Sunshine Circle for Young People, substitute Secretary Sharon Parker stood up, said "20 minutes, six seconds," sat down...
...postcard caught Vag's attention one morning. Looking down, past the "Est. 1639" and the "By Special Appointment to H.R.H.," Vag learned that an itinerant representative of Scott and Hanbury Ltd. (Military and Civil Tailors of 43 Knight st., London S.W.1) would soon receive clients at the Parker House...
...weeks, or rather a fortnight, later, unconcerned in old shoes and an odd jacket, Vag announced himself to the Parker House receptionist. When he arrived upstairs at the Scott-Hanbury suite, a somber man with an ingrown chin asked him to be seated in the entrance hall. Vag was not alone. Two familiar Cambridge faces, supported by matching neckties, were talking nearby...