Word: parker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shocking end to an afternoon of quiet enjoyment, but for respectable Christchurch a worse shock was still to come. That evening the police stopped by at Ham, the official residence of Dr. Henry Hulme, rector of staid Canterbury University College, and arrested Pauline Parker on suspicion of murder. Next day they came back and picked up Dr. Hulme's daughter Juliet on the same charge. Near the blood-soaked ground where Pauline's mother had lain, police found a brick and near it a bloodstained stocking in which the brick had been inserted and swung like a bludgeon...
Last week, in seven grisly hours at the Christchurch lower court, the police charged that Juliet and Pauline had killed Mrs. Parker with the brick-filled stocking. Their principal evidence: confessions from both girls, and excerpts from Pauline's own diary, in which Mrs. Parker's death was listed as the "Day of the Happy Event." Dozens of people die every day, sometimes thousands, said the schoolgirl's diary: so why not Mother...
...Frank," ad-libbed Arthur Godfrey to Tenor Frank Parker on Godfrey's morning radio and TV show one day last week, "how many times do you think you ought to warn a man that if he's drunk on the job you'll fire him?" Replied Parker, "I think he should get a couple of warnings, and then that would be it.'' Said Godfrey: "I fired a man yesterday that I told the last time, which was the seventh time, that I wouldn't take it again...
...Robert Taylor) is out to find the tomb of the first Pharaoh to believe in only one God-the one influenced by the Biblical Joseph. But as the story goes on. the moviegoer gets an uneasy sense that he is being asked to swallow an ideological camel (with Eleanor Parker on top) about the Americans and how they alone shine like good deeds in a naughty world. ("I am afraid," sneers a callow young Menjou-type, obviously a foreigner, "in all the hustle and bustle [in America], the spiritual might have been somewhat neglected.'' True-blue Robert snaps...
...effective. He even manages to sputter a little Arabic, or words to that effect-"umptu niagda brruschk!"-when the occasion requires. Comes time for the concluding festivities in the Pharaoh's crypt, Taylor seems so tired of it all that he hardly bothers to respond to Actress Parker's subterranean snuggling-a fact which at least spares the moviegoer a sort of petting party in a coffin...