Word: parker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FLETCHER D. PARKER Immanuel Congregational Church Hartford, Conn...
...there ever since. But even as a police reporter, he overflowed with human kindness and still corresponds with a few lifers who sentimentally recall his heart-warming stories about their crimes, trials and convictions. Possibly the only exception to his engulfing sentimental regard for humanity is the author (Dorothy Parker heatedly denies the honor) of the cynical couplet...
Then Keene offered Russo some fatherly advice, "You look like a nice fellow, you ought to go back to the Catholic religion and see your mother and dad. 'I'll say a prayer for you." Finally, Russo agreed to meet the representatives at the Parker House for a class in Marxist theory. This symposium will take place at 4.00 p.m. next Thursday...
...read F.P.A.'s "Conning Tower" in the Tribune; Deems Taylor was the World's bright young music critic; George Kaufman was the influential drama editor of the Times; Harold Ross, editor of the American Legion Weekly, was soon to embark on his New Yorker venture; and Dorothy Parker was living, as usual, on the edge of disaster-she had just lost her drama critic's job at Vanity Fair* (at Showman Florenz Ziegfeld's request because Dottie had roasted Mrs. Ziegfeld, alias Billie Burke...
...Vicious Circle's gags ran from harmless to vicious. Dorothy Parker, who once hung up the sign MEN on her office door because she was lonely, was also one of the champion acid-throwers. Said she to a lady writer who bragged about holding her husband for seven years: "Don't worry, if you keep him long enough he'll come back in style." Franklin P. Adams was generally somewhat kinder. Asked how Harold Ross, no beauty, had looked tobogganing over the weekend, F.P.A. replied: "Well, you know how he looks NOT tobogganing...