Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Witnesses tried to describe the peculiar sound of the tornado. Said one: "... A loud slapping noise, as if a truck was running down the street with all four tires flat." Like "the rumble of a train," said Joe Parker, 12. ("I wasn't scared...
Died. Foxhall Parker Keene, 74, onetime leading U.S. poloist, member of the first U.S. international polo team in 1886; at Ayer's Cliff, Quebec...
...tenure. One of the most successful traditions fostered by Professor Murdock was the annual Christmas reading, which Professor Hoadley intends to perpetuate. The evening was invariably begun with an excerpt from the Gospel according to St. Luke, but before long "Ken" launched into long quotations from Dorothy Parker and Bob Benchley, whose works, along with those of P.G. Wodehouse, lined his library shelves...
...pilots are apt to get the bends), similar but dangerous for the inexperienced; P39 (Bell's Airacobra pursuit which has several rare features, engine behind the pilot), strange, swift, mysterious; the prefix Z (for obsolete), over age 28; O-47 (North American observation plane), a girl from Dorothy Parker's couplet-wears glasses; B-19 (Douglas' huge bomber), stylish stout...
...York World or his $21,852-a-year syndicate column on the Herald Tribune. Less appreciated now are his own Pepys' diary of poker-playing, reading, tennis, his punning and light verse. Real meat of his column was always contributions. In it appeared the early efforts of Dorothy Parker, George S. Kaufman, Deems Taylor, John O'Hara...