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Word: parkerish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Gordon has written about Paula Wharton-a Dorothy-Parkerish writer who becomes an Army wife-with something like a Parker pen. While Paula's 39-year-old husband sweats for his commission, his sophisticated wife is exposed to wet-behind-the-ears Army youngsters and null-behind-the-skull colonels' wives. To help her husband, she drips sweetness; but she is saved from choking on treacle by such menaces in mufti as her husband's former boss and a Hollywood producer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Jan. 17, 1944 | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

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