Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eared Bill Talbert, unbeaten in nine tune-up tournaments, admitted that his game was better than ever; the 64th United States Lawn Tennis Champion ships looked like a breeze. Then Sergeant Frank Parker flew in from Guam, 10 lbs. thinner and fitter, razor-sharp from Marianas matches with Wayne Sabin, Don Budge and Bobby Riggs. Said Singles Champion Parker: "My game is better than ever...
Without letting her know what was wrong with him, he did his best to break off with his sweetheart, Ruth Hartley (Eleanor Parker). But thanks to her love and patience, the pep talks of his fellow marine Lee Diamond (Dane Clark) and the kindliness of a Red Cross worker (Rosemary De Camp), he was finally won back into human circulation...
Also reported safe: Major General George M. Parker Jr., Wainwright's lieutenant; Lieut. Colonel James Patrick Sinnott Devereux, commander of the marines in the heroic defense of Wake Island in December 1941. (Colonel Devereux's mother and 27 -year-old wife had died since he went to prison...
That moderately successful comedy, besides being semiautobiographical, was supposed to have echoed, faintly at least, the fuming sincerity of PM's Ralph Ingersoll and the virtually unduplicable wit of Dorothy Parker. Miss Gordon was well qualified to reverberate the Parker echoes. Miss Dunne, despite her own kinds of charm and humor, is not. Mr. Knox, whose youthful appearance will surprise those who have seen him only in the title role of Wilson* is superb as the editor, whether chattering at the edge of mental exhaustion, or putting all possible gusto into a reading of a post-Wilsonian editorial. Good...
Since Archbishop Parker's day, many a good churchman has complained that the Table was outmoded. Year by year it began to look more oldfashioned. Some of the prohibited relationships now seem far from "incestuous and unlawful." But innovations take time. "He shall prick that annual blister, marriage with deceased wife's sister," was the musical complaint of the Fairy Queen of satirist W. S. Gilbert's lolanthe...