Word: parkerisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lobby swung into line, got filling stations exempted. While Sacramento stewed in summer heat, ice companies won exemption. To Sacramento went a handsome young proprietress of a beauty shop chain: stores selling wares "incidental to personal service" were exempted. That probably let out the dental parlor chain of "Painless Parker." Chief target remained the 1,274 stores of food chains, Safeway, Piggly Wiggly, Mac Marr, Pay'n Takit, but also hit were such chains as Woolworth, Kress, Newberry, Penney, Walgreen. The State Senate thumped the bill through 34-to-4. Then California shook as with an earthquake. Radio, billboard...
Phase No. 2 commences when, haled into court for petty larceny, she is taken under the wing of a fatuous matron named Mrs. Parker (Katharine Alexander) who thinks Ginger good copy for a proposed book on child-raising. But Ginger, once installed in the matron's smart house, is bad copy indeed. She takes an instant dislike to her beauteous, black-haired benefactress whom she insults with or without provocation. She knocks over vases, upsets dinner with her bad manners, complains that "this dump is an ice box," thinks all the servants are waiters. By the time...
Said Doorkeeper Sinnott sternly to Mrs. Parker: "Would you mind feeding your baby in the Ladies' Room...
...stalked Mother Parker, trailed by husband and children...
...Guild of Organists which he helped found in 1896. To its 1,000 delegates he declared: "Modern music is going crazy. There is too much jazz, and jazz means dissonance. The standard of organ playing has greatly improved. The higher type music of such modern American composers as Horatio Parker, Arthur Foote and George W. Chadwick has superseded the old church music of comparatively insipid nature. But now we organists must deal with the influx of jazz...