Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...businessmen; the high priest of the mysteries exhumed by Sigmund Freud is a wild-eyed goon (Jerry Colonna) who can't stop slapping his own face. There is also a capitalist (Robert Benchley) who appears at his daughter's wedding with a neon endorsement of his product-PARKER'S PASTE KILLS RATS-glowing on the back of his frock coat...
...Dorothy Parker, bang-browed verbal bangster, of late more preoccupied with causes than with her famed encaustics, mused: "Committee meetings poison my life. They're mainly lots of people sitting around with their heads in their hands. Then somebody finally says, 'Doesn't any body know Baruch...
...Harvard it was Art Conlon of the NROTC and Dan O'Callaghan of the V-12 who posted the victories over McNeely and Parker of the visitors, but George Plimpton, John Knowles, and Murray Levin did not fare so well, going down in defeat before Knox, Kingsly, and Rand of the New Haven team...
When it was time, she went to Francis W. Parker School in Chicago, which was then, she recalls, "a pioneer progressive school . . . bound by the most unbreakable atmospheric conditions," the objective of which was to keep girls "youthful and wholesome." It was unholy to put up your hair until your last year...
Teacher's Career. Her sisters are married to a minister and a college president; Mildred chose another career. At 20, she launched into teaching: at Monticello Seminary, Godfrey, Ill., a job which her father arranged; at Francis Parker, where she taught eighth grade; at Tusculum College in Greenville, Tenn., where she arrived with her hair bobbed, shocking Tennesseans in 1923; at Oberlin, where she was dean of women; and finally to Wellesley, where she became a college president...