Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Dr. Elie Faure, 64, French art critic and parlor anarchist, author of what many still consider the world's most authoritative History of Art; in Paris. Dr. Faure turned writer after having been educated as a physician, took twelve years, 1909-21, to publish his History...
...union waiter, had his bed made by a non-union chambermaid. Across the street in the Brown Palace, Michael Carrozzo of the Hod Carriers, Building & Common Laborers' Union had a $15-per-day suite. Two delegates from the International Union of Operating Engineers shared two bedrooms and a parlor at $30. Some of the labormen who brought their wives & children set up housekeeping apartments rented for the duration...
From the coal mine town of Bradford, Ala., last week came a unique tale of lynching. According to Special Officer F. L. Brittain of the Alabama By-Products Corp., which runs Bradford's mines, a mob of "several thousand Negroes" gathered outside a beer parlor called the "Bloody Bucket," accused two white men of assaulting a Negro woman in a wood near the "Bloody Bucket," threatened to lynch them...
...press and radio mined a circulation bonanza. Five newspapers printed homework outlines and instructions under streamer headlines in editions which the parents of 317,000 elementary-school pupils felt more or less duty bound to buy. Six radio stations broadcast lessons by teachers which provided a new sort of parlor game for many an adult...
Last year in the corresponding period 1300 visitors of all ages came to PBH parlor. This year a corresponding number are coming with prospective 1941 men leaving in possession of the new, revised, and all inclusive vest pocket Harvard Handbook...