Word: parkerisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fulton of Oak Falls (adapted by George M. Cohan from a play by Parker Fennelly; Cohan & Harris, producers). The theatre is less convinced than the cinema that there is magic in a formula, and in the theatre sequels are comparatively rare. Fulton of Oak Falls, however, shows every sign of trying to be a sequel to Eugene O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness, with a daughter instead of a son as the trouble focus...
...line about it. Reason: defendant was the Chicago Tribune ("World's Greatest Newspaper") and publishers usually do not play up the libel difficulties of their brethren.* What made the Tribune's trouble all the more remarkable were the character and quality of its accuser, Harrison McGowen Parker, who in his high- flying career has been business manager of the Tribune, publisher of the Chicago American...
...Parker, now 59, left the American for a $45,000 a year job in the Hearst general management, went on from there into an independent career as spectacular as it was unorthodox. He soon was heading the Co-operative Society of America, Inc. which took in $11,000,000, had a top membership of 90,000, bought a life insurance company, a number of dairies, several packing houses, 190 grocery stores...
...Princeton managed to work 11 players into the game. Leading their scorers was Walter Woodward, bespectacled guard who dropped in two field goals and eight fouls for a total of eight points. HARVARD PRINCETON Lowman (Grondahl, Kuhn, Shirk), l.f. l.f., Vruwink (Fallon, Buddington) White (McGowan, Heckel), r.f. r.f. Woodward (Parker, Givens) Gray (Herrick), c. c., Sauter Struck (Dampeer, Snell), r.g. r.g., Hobler (Parker) Lupien (Wills, Litman), l.g. l.g., Scofield (Hill...
...Carter Richard C. Curtis '16 James B. Conant '14 W. K. Castle Greenville Clark '03 Robert F. Duncan '12 Harvard Club of Boston Parmeley W. Herrick '04 Christian A. Herter 2d '15 J. Horton Ijams '06 Thomas S. Lamont '21 Robert Luce '82 William R. Peabody '95 Erank E. Parker, Jr. '18 Charles F. Bowley '04 Loverett Saltonstall '14 Charles M. Storey '11 John H. Sherburne '98 Henry Ware '93 Charles H. Warner, Jr. '20 Alexander Wheeler '10 Robert W. Williams '11 Eliot Wadsworth; '98 Maurice Wertheim '06 Orrin G. Wood '09 Richard Wigglesworth...