Word: parkerisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sequoia (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) concerns an abnormal affinity between a deer and a puma who meet in Sequoia National Park, form an allegiance which causes them to behave like the lion and the lamb in the Biblical text. Captured in infancy by a kind-hearted tourist girl (Jean Parker), Gato, the puma, and Malibu, the deer, soon learn to lap from the same dish. They are fast friends by the time Gato's habit of raiding the neighbor's chicken coop makes it necessary for their mistress to turn both loose in the forest...
...afterwards gained prominence as an author a diplomat and a roving investigator for President Roosevelt, had a brilliant undergraduate record as ivy orator, member of the football team, and the Lampoon, and President of the Advocate. He married four times between 1916 and 1921. His second wife is Maude Parker, the anchoress...
...Zoology Department will lose George H. Parker '87, who has won fame as an author as well as a professor. He is a member of the American Academy for Advancement of Science...
Town Crier Woollcott lives in the same apartment house as the Ralph Pulitzers and Alice Duer Miller at the foot of East 52nd Street, overlooking the East River. Dorothy Parker named the place "Wit's End." He lives in Sybaritic ease, attended by a youthful Negro servant named Junior. When he writes at home, he customarily dictates to a male secretary. Breakfast or cocktail guests are likely to include the Ben Hechts, Charles MacArthurs, Neysa McMein, Harpo Marx, Noel Coward, Herbert Bayard Swope. With Editor Harold Ross he maintains a perpetual Potash & Perlmutter squabble, which last week came...
Score--Amherst 29, Harvard 26. Goals--Boys 4, Turner 4, Coey 4, Kollinites 2, Gray 2, Moses 2, Fusco 1, Fletcher 1. Free throws--Kollinites 3, Turner 2, Coey 2, Holmes 2, Fletcher 2, Gray 1, White 1, Boys 1, Fusco 1. Referees--Parker, Melleher. Time--two 20 minute periods...