Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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MEET YOURSELF AS You REALLY ARE-Prince Leopold Loewenstein &. William Gerhardi-Lippincott ($2). A Freudian parlor game, the ingenious patent of an amateur psychologist and a sometimes witty English novelist (Memoirs of a Polyglot, Resurrection...
...ribbons, trophies and cash, furnished out of the entry fees of 50? a bird. Noteworthy entrants: ¶ Biggest bird in the show was Ramon, a giant Runt* from Dallas. For his 3? lb., he had an 18-in. body circumference, wing spread of three feet. ¶ Unhappiest breed were Parlor Tumblers. Equipped with the determination of homing pigeons but utterly unable to fly, their efforts to get off the ground cause them to somersault backward. Single Tumblers flop over once, Double Tumblers twice. Parlor Rollers will roll 75 ft. backward without stopping. ¶ Most numerous were 600 Kings-large, white...
...Heinzman of Louisville. ¶ Best bird in the show was a Blue African Owl, weighing 1/2 lb., which received a fountain pen, a plaque and $11.50 in cash for being judged the best bird of his breed, the best old Owl and the best old African Owl. Had the Parlor Rollers in last week's show been capable of reversing their situation instead of themselves, they would doubtless have picked, as the best pigeon judge in the U. S., a precise mild-mannered expert who, unlike the rest of his breed, judged not one or two classes but about...
...true that the devil finds work for idle hands to do, the No. i U. S. Mephistopheles is currently a mild little Philadelphian named Charles Darrow. Mr. Darrow's claim to the title, based on Monopoly, U. S. parlor craze of 1936, was last week reinforced when Parker Brothers began to distribute his second invention for idle hands. The new Darrow game is Bulls & Bears. Success of Monopoly, which was last week estimated to be in its sixth million and selling faster than ever, gave Bulls & Bears a pre-publication sale of 100,000, largest on record...
...oilcloth left over from a roll used to cover a kitchen table. In 933> two years after he had designed the game, Inventor Darrow put it on the market privately. Since Parker Brothers took it over in the spring of 1935, Monopoly, first smash hit perfected by an amateur parlor-game inventor in 35 years, has been translated into seven languages. In the U. S., Atlantic City lots are the basis of trading...