Word: parkerisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outside Congress: In Washington he rents a comfortable old-fashioned house at 1822 19th Street, K.W. He avoids most social functions, plays golf with such House cronies as New York's Parker, Massachusetts' Treadway at fashionable Chevy Chase Club. Sprightly, he drives his own car, a black Buick coupe, also maintains a Cadillac, a Negro chauffeur. From his luxurious Stamford residence, he golfs at the Wee Burn, Suburban, or Woodway country clubs, takes much interest in the town's Ferguson Library, the Children's Home. He likes the theatre and concerts...
LAMENTS FOR THE LIVING-Dorothy Parker-Viking...
...Author Parker has a way with her; her way is caustic, penetrating, deflating. Her sarcasm, often restrained, is always present, usually evident. Laments for the Living is a collection of 13 short stories, dialogs, monologs in her best, most caustic manner...
...Stoughton Hall, but in case of rain it is likely that the tables will be moved into one of the halls in the House. Following is the committee in charge: J. Fleming, chairman: C. M. Under hill '30: W. M. Dunn '30: C. G. Chase '30: C. H. Parker '32: E. D. Emigh '30: and James Roosevelt...
Immediately Addison M. Parker, Dickinson campaign manager, charged that Governor Hammill had inspired this propaganda against his candidate. Governor Hammill denied the charge as did Walter Albert Jessup, president of the University of Iowa. Responsibility finally filtered down to a Professor Kirby who innocently said...