Word: parkerisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after England declared war on Germany the German cables were cut; from then on there was "nearly absolute Allied command over all channels of communication and opinion." Sir Gilbert Parker, head of the British bureau "responsible for American publicity." handed out to delighted U. S. correspondents free articles from such noted writers as Kipling, Wells, Galsworthy. Arnold Bennett; distributed propaganda material broadcast to U. S. libraries, educational institutions and periodicals; "was particularly careful to arrange for lectures, letters and articles by pro-Ally Americans rather than by Englishmen." German-atrocity stories spread like tares. A group...
Princess O'Hara (Universal). When Old Man O'Hara, driver of a horse hack, is accidentally killed in a Manhattan taxi war, his daughter Princess (Jean Parker) blames Toledo (Chester Morris). The audience is rapidly made aware that Toledo has the golden heart traditional for mobsters in that blend of Hans Christian Andersen and Broadway which is a Damon Runyon story. Leon Errol and Vince Barnett are the gorillas detailed by their boss to see that life flows smoothly for the Princess, a task made difficult because she resents any benefactions sponsored by Toledo. Faced with the problem...
...same time, David Emerson '38, Frederick S. Bigelow '38, Henry S. Parker '36, and Harold A. White '37 will compete in the third class events, which will be held on the Wildcat Coll Trail...
...spectacle, "Sequoia." One is always suspicious of these animal films because for some puzzling reason it seems easier to make the human part of Hollywood's performers behave in more convincing fashion than the allegedly lower species. The stars of "Sequoia" are a deer and a puma; Miss Jean Parker is also much in evidence, but she seems to blend gracefully into the background and doesn't interfere seriously with the goings on. She should have been a W. H. Hudson girl-of-the-wilds with hair in the breeze and so forth, but she hasn't quite thrown...
Such rank weeds as the late Clyde Barrow and his cigar-smoking mistress Bonnie Parker (TIME, June 4) sprang from roots deeply embedded in the darkest social soil. Loudly has the Department of Justice proclaimed its purpose not only to cut down the weeds but also to dig up their roots. Therefore last week a Federal jury in Dallas, Tex. convicted 15 grubby persons who had nourished and protected Bandits Barrow & Parker. Five others had already pleaded guilty. Given sentences ranging from one hour to two years were Bonnie Parker's mother and sister; Barrow's mother...