Word: parr
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...REDDICK JR. & W. S. PARR...
Bitter Ender. In Brentwood, England, doctors prepared wisecracking William Parr for an operation, rejoiced to think ;hat the anesthetic would silence his quips, :found "This Side Up" printed across his jared stomach...
...riddle he expounds," and that "in every passage there is a key word which sounds the essential theme." Example (from page 1 of Finnegans Wake}: "The fall (bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohooordenenthurnuk!) of a once wallstrait oldparr is retaled early in bed and later on life down through all Christian minstrelsy." Old Parr, Campbell and Robinson explain, was the grand old man of Shropshire who finally trembled into his grave at the age of 152 (1483-1635). Parr and wallstrait are puns ("par" and "Wall Street") on the rise & fall of stockmarket values. The immense polysyllable that fol lows the word "fall...
Oceanographer Parr's own ideas on climate control are still in a sketchy stage, but he offered meteorologists a few provocative suggestions: they might "create a city of calm in a windy location" by means of windbreaks and shelterbelt planting, cool or warm a city by the use of "heat-generating or light-reflecting facades in city building," control the effects of the sun by intelligent planning of light and shadow...
Rossby agrees with Professor Parr that no one knows much about weather; meteorologists still have no precise idea, for example, why some clouds drop rain and others do not. But Carl Rossby, a moon faced, jolly Swede, has turned up many another useful fact about weather since he arrived in the U.S. and went to work for the Weather Bureau...