Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gushed one day like a Southern belle, the next flogged, like Simon Legree. As playwright, he collaborated with George S. Kaufman on the moderately successful Channel Road (1929), Dark Tower (1933). As contributor to The New Yorker, he wrote with equal vivacity on anagrams and croquet, of crime and parlor games. As author, he wrote books about dogs, the theatre, Irving Berlin, Mrs. Fiske (his stage idol), Dickens (his literary idol), achieved a best-seller with While Rome Burns. As editor, he compiled The Woollcott Reader and Woollcott's Second Reader, 1,100 pages which reveal Woollcott...
...that each dot represented one person in the Federal Government's ''immense corps of jobholders. . . . The dots, unfortunately, had to be made very small. . . . Even so, the chart is too large for the taxpayer to paste in his hat. Let him hang it, instead, on his parlor wall, between 'The American's Creed' and the portrait of Mr. Roosevelt. ... If there were no jobholders at all every taxpayer's income would be increased twenty-seven percent. Such is the bill for being saved from revolution and ruin by Wonder...
During the quarter-of-a-century coaching regime of Fielding H. ("Hurry Up") Yost, Michigan football teams were hailed from coast to coast. Proud alumni monopolized parlor conversation with tales of Michigan's point-a-minute scores, its four undefeated, untied seasons, its twelve All-Americans, including amazing young Harry Kipke...
...more his own funeral will cost. But it makes him uneasy that many of his constituents in The Bronx will not be able to do so. So last week at Albany he introduced a bill which, if passed, would enable New York cities to establish municipal funeral parlors such as several big European cities maintain for their indigent citizens. Decent funerals would be provided at cost price: $60. The parlor which New York City would require to embalm & bury or cremate & pack its poorer citizenry would cost...
...Crooner Alice Faye differs from operatic Soprano Kirsten Flagstad, so differs the beauteous yellow parlor canary from that less spectacular-looking musical technician, the Glucke Roller Canary. Ordinary house canaries just sing. Rollers roll. They trill and pipe some twelve identifiably different kinds of music. For 400 years eager teachers have bred away their natural song, using organ music to teach them Gluckes and Rolls, using running water to teach them the elegant Deep Bubbling Water Tour. Modern breeders lef young birds learn by listening to older champions. Some trainers have tried phonograph records, but not successfully. The birds learn...