Word: parkerisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Merger in Meriden. For over 100 years Charles Parker Co. of Meriden, Conn., has made hardware specialties and since the Civil War, the famed Parker shotgun. Last fortnight the company expanded by acquiring the business of Artistic Bronze Co. of Bridgeport, manufacturer of refrigerator accessories, builders' hardware, art lamps...
...inflicted by a prize bull; at his Walhalla Farm outside Schenectady, N. Y. Died. Magnus Washington Alexander, 62, president of the National Industrial Conference Board; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. An expert on industrial planning, in 1928 he called U. S. industry too sanguine. Died. Sir Horatio Gilbert Parker, 69, historical novelist (The Seats of the Mighty, The Right of Way, The Lane That Had No Turning, The Trespasser, The Power and the Glory, etc., etc.) ; after a heart attack; in London. At Trinity College, Toronto, he passed his examination for deacon's orders in the Church...
Here Today. Good friend of Authoress Dorothy Parker is her publisher, George Oppenheimer (The Viking Press). Deciding to write a play, Publisher Oppenheimer wondered what would happen if a person whose life is devoted to being brilliant were thrown into a houseful of Boston socialites. His answer is highly amusing to almost everyone but the socialites. Mary Hilliard (Ruth Gordon) is bizarre, witty, peripatetic, alcoholic. When they get drunk she and her friend Stanley Dale (Charles D. Brown) go travelling. Once they went to Siam. This time they go to Nassau, where Mary Hilliard's one-time husband, Philip...
Spectators at Forest Hills last week were well aware of Frankie Parker, most amazing tennis phenomenon of the year, who has four times this season beaten the No. 2 U. S. player, George Lott Jr. Most spectators knew that he had been tutored by Mercer Beasley, tennis coach at Tulane University and instructor at the Detroit Tennis Club. Beasley's other pupils- Vines, Sutter, Carolyn Babcock-have done so well this year and last that Beasley has become the best known teacher in the history of U. S. tennis. Had he been at Forest Hills last week instead...
...Frankie Parker: "It was in 1927 that Frankie Parker came into my life. Little shaver, thin, puny, but quiet and attentive. . . . He had the best eye for a moving ball I've ever seen. . . . It took four years of the hardest work to get the boy's title. . . . Last year the wonder boy never lost a set. . . . He is to be the best of the pack...