Word: parkerisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which, by virtue of talent, wit and hobnobbing together, was coming to dominate the sophisticated Manhattan scene. Their lunch club, the Algonquin Hotel, had waked up one morning to find itself famous, and celebrity-chasers flocked there, as to a play, to observe Kaufman. Connelly, Broun, Woollcott, Benchley, Dorothy Parker, F.P.A. & Co. at lunch, and to hear their laughter, though not what gave rise to it. The male members enhanced their glamor by forming the Thanatopsis Literary and Inside Straight Club, whose legendary sessions, devoted to poker and wisecracks, F.P.A. reported in his column...
...Harvard undergraduate to survive the primaries, Albert L. Maguire '40, was roundly defeated for the Ward 7 seat on the City Council by Haven Parker, who received 1798 votes to Maguiro...
...Haven Parker, Maguire's opponent, led the former second-string varsity football player by a large margin in the primaries. James H. Cunningham, the runner up in the primaries, recently jumped aboard the Maguire bandwagon, so he feels he has "a fifty-fifty chance of winning the election...
...Adams House, a group will discuss "Jefferson's Brand of Democracy" at 7:15 o'clock, while Benjamin Fletcher Wright, assistant professor of Government, will speak on "Jefferson's Americanism" at Leverett House at 7 o'clock. George Parker Winship has chosen as his subject, "Practice and Theory in Early Harvard," which will be discussed at Kirkland at 6 o'clock...
Behind them rank Dick Wing, who ran only a little last year: Joe McLoughlin, Bob Jay (last year's Yardling captain); Jim Lightbody (1940 track chief and a newcomer to cross country); John Parker; and Dave Simboli, who has virtually recovered from an early season injury...