Word: parkerisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wachter, who will coach both the University and Freshmen this year as usual, recently announced that at the meeting for University men tonight short talks will be given by T. S. Woods '20, former manager of basketball. V. O. Jones '28, W. J. Bingham '16, and Haven Parker '22, P. W. Mahady '30, who played on the University team last year, will be assistant coach for the coming season...
Shortly after this convention a group of veterans of a Regular Army division all of whom saw service at the front as early as Chateau- Thierry, met in the Parker House, Boston, to organize a society. The meeting was a tremendous contrast to the Legion affair. Sixty were present. Many had been wounded in action. None had liquor. The spirit was remarkably matured thought, striking dignity, and intense respectability. Most were not Legionaries. Some were successful businessmen; others more humble; but each maintained the same dignity, the same matured and respectable attitude. It was an inspiration and a contrast...
...votes largely by a demand for the repeal of the 18th Amendment. His Wetness pulled his Dry friend George White through to the governorship. A factor in Senator McCulloch's defeat was the opposition of Ne groes, aroused by his support of President Hoover's nomination of John Johnston Parker for the Supreme Court last spring...
...days afterward, Buffalo Child Long Lance sat in a plane piloted by Parker ("Shorty") Cramer, onetime Arctic flying mate of Sir George Hubert Wilkins. When Pilot Cramer pulled a lever. Long Lance was dumped through the cabin floor into space with a parachute billowing over his head...
...original intention was to become a dancer, but she broke her ankle after appearing in the first Music Box Revue. His Majesty's Car is her twelfth theatrical engagement, including one year with the Theatre Guild. She has no hobbies, one wirehaired fox terrier, one husband-Playwright Austin Parker (Week End), Cornellian, Wartime ambulance driver, flyer in the Lafayette Escadrille. She looks girlish onstage, thirtyish off (exact age secret...