Word: parrish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Albert Coates (Sir Alfred Banner). But Publishers Harper & Bros, are banking on the book's attracting a wider attention than Rochester's. They paid Author Horgan $7,500 and royalties for his book, hope it will sell as many copies as previous Harper Prize Novels (Anne Parrish's The Perennial Bachelor, Glenway Wescott's The Grandmothers, et al.). Judicious readers will rate The Fault of Angels as a moderately entertaining, competent picture of a minor artistic phenomenon...
...Chief-of-Staff Ross announced that henceforth he was a senior partner. Moreover, the rest of them were appointed junior partners : Burnham Carter, who joined the firm ten years ago and lately returned from a leave of absence in which he was secretary to Ambassador Guggenheim in Havana; Harcourt Parrish, oldtime AP and Louisville Courier-Journal man whom Ivy Lee rented out to Banker Melvin Alvah Traylor for the latter's effort to get the Democratic nomination last year; Joseph Ripley, onetime editor of the tradepaper American Press in which he wrote a flattering interview with...
...Emerson, who runs a small shop near Harvard Square with Maxfield Parrish Jr. (son of the artist) and David Garrison as associates, counter-claimed that Mr. Drinker, assistant professor of ventilation & illumination in Harvard's School of Public Health, appropriated certain Emerson inventions for the famed Drinker respirator. Indignant Mr. Emerson has roused a faction of Harvard's Medical School to similar indignation, over the fact that Mr. Drinker drew fat royalties ($300 alleged) on every Drinker respirator sold by Warren E. Collins Inc. Builder Emerson claims that $1,500 for a Drinker machine is "robbery," sells...
Some years have passed since printed advertising started to make handmaiden of the visual arts, since an attractive young saleswoman persuaded Arthur Rackhan to let his gnomes and gnarled trees be used to advertise Colgate's soap. Maxfield Parrish early turned his lush blues and sunlit yellows to frankly commercial account Recently American Car & Foundry used a series of Rockwell Kent's best drawings...
Also announcing style trends last week was Amos Parrish, unique style forecaster for U. S. and Canadian retail buyers and merchandisers. To his seventh Fashion Merchandising Clinic in Manhattan's Hotel Pierre went 100 store buyers, advertising and sales managers. "More lady-like than ever-and certainly gay," said Amos Parrish last week. "Women will look taller this fall. . . . And of course they will not be wearing their hats on the backs of their heads. Fashion is now tilting her hat forward over the right eye." Alert, keen, Forecaster Parrish senses style trends like a hound after a badger...