Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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EUGENE G. PARKER...
...journalism, the Herrin school of gun-toting, the Lardner school of bon-mots--schools innumerable. The latest addition to the ranks would appear to be the academy of Edna St. Vincent Millay; at least Edmund Wilson in the Nation, has named Miss Millay as the muse of Dorothy Parker, who has just emerged from the aureate glow of the Algonquin Round Table with a book of poems...
Undoubtedly Miss Parker has read Miss Millay and in all probability she has admired her. But to class her work as one of the Millay school is to deny her the elusive fire of originality. Mr. Wilson might just as well said that Miss Parker was of the Petrarch school, since her sonnet form bears resemblances to his. To condemn a lady who pens admirable hymns of hate to any one school is dogmatic especially when that lady can write a touching sonnet concerning a maid standing waiting at the gate and concluding with the illuminating statement that...
...Among those who presented themselves at the White House last week were: Alanson B. Houghton, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's; S. Parker Gilbert, Agent General of Reparations; Senator Watson of Indiana with the Glee Club of Notre Dame University; 50 house-to-house salesmen of the Fuller Brush Co., to handshake...
...Editorial supervision of all Scripps-Howard newspapers is from an office in Cleveland, in charge of able George B. Parker...