Word: parkerisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Miss Brice does her celebrated Jewish interpretation of Peter Pan ("It ish Dink-a-Bell!"). She is again very funny as the slightly Semitic Southern girl in her travesty on Strictly Dishonorable, but not so funny in a maudlin recitation of Dorothy Parker's Telephone Call. Mr. Baker trades gags with his fat friend in a box, sings an ingratiating song called "Under The Clock At The Astor," indicating with his stick "females and he-males and she-males, and girls who bear loneliness well." Attention is called to the best of Crazy Quilt's songs...
Oldest mayor in the party came from the smallest town. He was Alvin Parker Gray, 78, of Pasco, Wash. (pop. 3,500). He said he was going to "team-up" with the youngest mayor, R. B. Marvin of Syracuse, N. Y., who is 33. Bigger and louder than even St. Louis' Victor J. ("Oh, Boy") Miller was Mayor George L. Baker of Portland, Ore. Large, breezy, beetle-browed Mayor Baker lost no time in making himself the personage of the party. He wore a 10-gallon hat, was elected chairman of the delegation, gave out the big interview during...
...Forker broke in as a cub on the Los Angeles Herald in 1908, later serving as International News Service correspondent on the Mexican border, working on various papers about the U. S., returning to the Hearst fold in 1917 as editor of Harper's Bazaar. ¶Economist Henry Parker Willis, with the New York Journal of Commerce for 30 years, resigned the editorship which he had held since 1919. Reason: "Clashes of opinion" with the Brothers Joseph, Bernard and Victor Ridder, publishers. Managing Editor Frederick W. Jones also resigned...
Rowing over the milo and three-quarter distance in the Charles River basin yesterday, the Junior Class crew, stroked by A. H. Parker '32, was timed at 9 min., 22 sec. This will be its last row at a high stroke before the race with the Yale Championship Class crew on the Charles tomorrow. The first Union Boat Club crew paced the class shell as far as the Henley finish, being clocked...
Harvard Princeton McCaffrey, c.f. l.f., Reinmund McGrath, lb. 3b., Muldaur Ticknor, l.f. s.s., Knell DesRoches, 3b. lb., Morse Wood, s.s. c.f., Bessire Rex, r.f. r.f., Moles Mays, 2b. c., Eno Sheldon, c. 2b., Parker MacHale, p. p., Waud...