Word: parkerisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Witt, Ark., three days after that, occurred Lynching No. 6. A Negro and a white man forced a deputy sheriff to surrender Negro John Parker, arrested on a murder charge. Negro Parker was taken to the roadside, killed. His colored assailant was promptly arrested for murder. The white man was held as an accessory...
...McCormick, whose 51st birthday it was, formally accepted honorary chairmanship. Chairman is Claude Gernade Bowers, editorial writer of Hearst's New York Journal, late of the Evening World, keynoter of the 1928 Democratic national convention. Vice chairmen are Editor Marlen Edwin Pew of Editor & Publisher and Editor Frank Parker Stockbridge of the American Press. The rest of the committee are newspapermen great & small in all parts...
...Georges Banks whirlpool was swirling away from its centre. Charting the Banks for the U. S. Coast & Geodetic Survey, U. S. S. Hydrographer bumped into the strange revolving current, was thrown off its course. Captain William Edward Parker tried to drive the Hydrographer through the whirlpool. It balked him. Next week he intends to anchor a buoy at the fringe of the phenomenon and with that as a marker work his way through from the opposite side...
...Clark W. Parker and his son Wyman stood before Federal Judge John Munro Woolsey in Manhattan last week, were fined $11,000 each and sentenced to five years in Atlanta Penitentiary for conspiracy and using the mails to defraud. Worthless was not only $1,250,000 worth of stock in Automotive Royalties Corp. but also that of two previous companies Mr. Parker had formed. Many a mulcted clergyman sadly agreed when Judge Woolsey called him "an enemy to society." Swindler Parker shrugged...
When the New York Herald Tribune commented fortnight ago upon the failure of Manhattan's Noise Abatement Commission to produce a noiseless ashcan, its editorial was headlined, Ellis Parker Butler-wise: "Ashcans Is Ashcans." Few days later the meticulous Boston Transcript reprinted the editorial, changed the headline to: "Ashcans Are Ashcans." Observed the Herald Tribune last week: "So they may be-in Boston. In New York they is. But wherever it may be read the Transcript certainly are the Transcript. The singular verb is inadequate to a paper of such imperturbable grammar...