Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...handwriting to labor over, no fierce-eyed little man popping in at the door with sharp invectives. The little man was missed at the Friday afternoon Symphony where for years he had sat in the front row of the balcony, the seat beside him vacant. That night Henry Taylor Parker ("H. T. P.") died of pneumonia. He was 66. For 29 years he had been Boston's oracle on theatre and music...
...Critic Parker's initials, all he ever signed, gave him the nicknames of "Hard-to-Please" and "Hell-to-Pay." But he was seldom vitriolic. His reviews were famed chiefly for their length (1,250 words, at least), their ornate, old-fashioned sentences, their freshness and independence of viewpoint. Boston knew him for a sputtery, gnomelike person who wore a flowing cape for evening, carried a stout bamboo stick, shunned conversation. He did most of his writing between 3 and 5 a. m., always in longhand on yellow ruled paper. Afternoons saw him in his musty, little Transcript office...
...swung at him with his fist. For all his 70 years Messenger Parker dodged nimbly, doubled up his fists, prepared for battle. A policeman arrested the striker...
Said Messenger Parker: "I knowed dem banjo heads wuzn't representin' de true spirit of de University an' I was provoked an' wore out wid de way dey wuz actin'. ... He didn't tech me, no indeedy, fuh you see I has de body motion an' weaved...
Lyman Beecher (1775-1863) was called by Theodore Parker "The father of more brains than any other man in America." From his father, a New Haven blacksmith, he inherited distinctive Beecher qualities: dyspepsia, absentmindedness, manual skill, a sense of humor, intellectual curiosity and physical strength. Thrice-married he begat 13 children of whom three died young and the rest lived an average of 81.5 years. While a student of divinity at Yale, as an orthodox Calvinist Lyman Beecher stoutly believed in predestination: man was damned from the start and could be saved only through God's agency. When...