Word: parkerisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next Representative Homer Parker from Georgia rose to a point of personal privilege. He complained that newspapers had attacked him because he was convicted in 1917 of breaking Georgia's gambling law by playing poker. He too was shushed after Texas' blatant Blanton had demanded: "Has it come to a point where engaging in a poker game reflects upon the integrity of a legislator...
After Such Pleasures (adapted from Dorothy Parker's book and her Laments for the Living by Edward F. Gardner; A. L. Jones, producer). During an intermission of The Lake, Dorothy Parker remarked to others in her party: "Well, let's go back and see Katharine Hepburn run the gamut of human emotion from A to B." This cruel mot epitomizes the spirit of After Such Pleasures, a categorical drubbing of womanhood and all its works from...
...yard relay race--Won by Dartmouth: Ballard, Earl, D. Ley, Banfield; second, Harvard: Roy S. Wallace, Jr. '35, George Wightman '34, Edward P. Parker '34, George C. Scott, Jr. '34. Time--3 minutes, 46 4-5 seconds...
Score: Providence 25.; Harvard 18. Goals: Shapiro 3, Reilly 2, Kutniewski 2. Ziment 2, Koslowski 1. Boys 2, Fletcher 2, Henderson 1, Morse 1, Comfort 1. Fouls: Kutniewski 2, Shapiro 2. Ziment 1, Ferriter 1. Merry 1, Boys 1, Henderson 1. Umpire, J. P. Haughey; Referee, J. Parker; Time: two 20-minute periods...
Score: Tufts 49, Harvard 29. Goals: Merry 8, Kavanaugh 8, Grinnell 7, Harris 4, Boys 2, Morse 2, Regean 1, Woodworth 1, Cochran 1. Fouls: Merry 2, Grinnell 2, Cochran 2, Grady 2, Woodworth 1, Comfort 1. Umpire: Parker; Referee: McGuinness; Time: Two 20-minute periods...