Word: parkerisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tryout of Pocket Books-10,000 copies of each title-was confined to the New York area. At first week's end they were a sellout. (First to go were Wuthering Heights and Dorothy Parker's Enough Rope, with The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Felix Salten's Bambi bringing up the rear.) Macy's sold 4,100 copies in six days. Booksellers said they brought new faces into their stores. Newsstands did an arm-aching business, as did Grand Central Terminal "train butchers...
TIME SHOULD KNOW BETTER THAN TO CREDIT CHICAGO HOTEL ASSOCIATION WITH ORIGINATING DUMMY IDEA TO UNJINX 13 AT TABLE [TIME, June 12]. BOSTON'S PARKER HOUSE STARTED IT AND TOLD THE WORLD ABOUT IT IN A PAID TIME COLUMN...
GLENWOOD J. SHERRARD President Parker House Boston, Mass...
...TIME did not credit the Chicago Hotel Association with originating the unjinxing dummy, herewith gladly gives all the credit in the world to Boston's famed Parker House...
...REGATTA MYSTERY-Agatha Christie-Dodd, Mead ($2). Nine short stories, with Hercule Poirot starring in some, Mr. Parker Pyne in others. Ingenious and slight. (Some have appeared in magazines...