Word: parker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They called themselves the Vicious Circle, and one day as they trooped out after lunch-Robert Sherwood, Dorothy Parker, George Kaufman, Bob Benchley, Heywood Broun and the rest-a pressagent paid them his passing respects. "There," said he, "goes the greatest collection of unsalable wit in America." Not too long after, most of them were naming their own prices...
...relaxed rules don't necessarily lead to the type of misbehaviour which Dorothy Parker immortalized in her famous remark about the Carnival. As the bright young man with the big green sweater told us, "The Carnival isn't a sex weekend, it's too cold...
...student's complaint was in answer to an order to "move along" from in front of Arthur Parker's Luncheonette, situated at the corner of Dunster and Mt. Auburn Streets. According to several of the by-standers, his offense was tapping on the window of the store and calling to some friends inside...
...length convinced that "for a long time [the movies] will remain nothing more nor less than an industry to manufacture children's wet goods." When he died of a heart attack at 44, hardly anybody went to the funeral home. One who did was his old friend Dorothy Parker. Taking the epitaph line from The Great Gatsby, she said, "The poor son of a bitch...
Others nominated for the Board of Overseers are: Arthur W. Page '05 of New York, Welles V. Moot '08 of Buffalo, William W. Bodine '10 of Philadelphia, Elliott Dunlap Smith '13 of Pittsburgh, Lewis H. Mills '15 of Portland, Oregon, Bayard L. Kilgour, Jr. '27 of Cincinnati, and Theodore Parker Ferris '29 of Boston...