Word: parkerisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shared the feature page with Heywood Broun and Critic Alexander Woolcott until they departed. The Tower's following is a loyal one and accounts for much of the World's circulation among sophisticates. Famed contributors include Colyumist Adams' good friends Ring Lardner, John Held Jr., Dorothy Parker, Sigmund Spaeth, Groucho Marx, Samuel Hoffenstein, Arthur Guiterman, Newman Levy. Author-Lawyer Levy ("Flaccus") wrote in 1923 what has since become the Conning Tower's "most requested" poem for reprinting, a rollicking narrative called "Thai's." First stanza: One time, in Alexandria, in wicked Alexandria, Where nights were...
Misfortune has dogged President Hoover's North Carolina appointments. When he tried to reward that State for its 1928 vote by elevating Circuit Judge John Johnston Parker of Charlotte to the U. S. Supreme Court, the Senate tore his nominee to bits, raised unwelcome racial and labor issues, refused confirmation (TIME, March 31 et seq.). Last week it seemed likely that the outcome of the President's second attempt to do the Old North State a political favor would be much the same. Observers began to wonder who was responsible for the White House's political advice on North Carolina...
...Harvard students are, Patrick Armistead Gibson '31, of Richmond, Virginia, Dudley Lee Harley 1G., of Martinsburg, West Virginia, Alfred Hayes, Jr. 1G.B., of Greenwich, Connecticut, James Parker Pettigrove 1G., of Machiasport, Maine, and Greenville Ross Holden '31, of Idaho Falls, Idaho...
Divorced. Richard Washburn Child, onetime (1919) editor of Collier's Weekly, onetime (1921-24) U. S. Ambassador to Italy; by Mrs. Eva Sanderson Child, his third wife (Wives Elizabeth Scott and Maude Parker both divorced him). Charges: extreme cruelty...
Whether or not Farmer W. Parker Perry of Somerset, N. J. ever read of Icarus * is not a matter of record. But it is recorded that seven years ago Farmer Perry, then 26, fashioned himself a pair of wings of wood & cotton, climbed to the top of his barn, jumped. Not badly hurt, he tried another "flight," was not badly hurt. Picking himself up the second time, Farmer Perry announced with evident satisfaction: "I didn't hit as hard as if I hadn't had the wings." But he turned to less violent experiments. From hangar to hangar...