Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Church of England decided to do something about the Table. Every Anglican prayerbook contains the Table of Kindred and Affinity*−"Wherein whosoever are related are forbidden in Scripture and our laws to marry together." These mari, tal prohibitions (drawn up in 1560 by Archbishop of Canterbury Matthew Parker) were based mainly on the famed sexual rules & regulations of Leviticus XVIII. Specifically, the Table banned marriage with brothers-and sisters-in-law, nephews and nieces...
...Antonio's Thomas Jefferson High School (he was the state's top scorer two years ago). Then his coach said that track would help his footballing, so Perry Samuels became a sprinter-and all last year ran a close but chronic second to speedy teammate Charley Parker (TIME, May 15, 1944). This year he pared his 100-yd. time down to 9.5 sec., one-tenth off the world's record...
...language matched his man ners. He would say to a guest: "You faun's rear end, I hoped we'd seen the last of you," or "Here's our withered harpy back again." "Thank you, you mildewed sheeny," was his way of acknowledging help from Dorothy Parker...
...since been commissioned and promoted to the rank of Lientenant Colonel, in which capacity he acted as a representative of the War Department in Congress at the time of the passage of the Contract Settlement Act. Previously he had worked with Judge John J. Parker on the American Bar Association Committee for the reform of civil procedure...
...Viking authors whose books went on Nazi bonfires: Lion Feuchtwanger, Stefan Zweig, Arnold Zweig, Franz Werfel. Other Viking authors: John Steinbeck, Ludwig Bemelmans, Dorothy Parker...