Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...journalistic giant who inspired such awe began his newspaper life early. Son of a well-to-do parlor radical, Albert Brisbane of Buffalo, who paid for space to run a doctrinaire column in Horace Greeley's New York Tribune, Arthur Brisbane was educated abroad, mostly by tutors, turned up on the old New York SMI in 1883, aged 19. At that time the SMI thought extraordinarilv well of itself, encouraged its young men to write long "literary" pieces. Thriving young Arthur Brisbane was made the Sun's London correspondent, wrote a famous account of the fight between John...
...have nothing. I've applied for home relief but they laughed at me when I told them I was one of the Ebbets. . . . I even tried to get a job at Ebbets Field but they won't let an Ebbets in there." Moping about her cold parlor in Montclair, N. J., Miss Ada E. Ebbets, 69-year-old sister of President Ebbets, revealed that she too had received no money for four years from the estate executors. Few weeks ago occurred the Dodgers' annual Ebbets dinner, paid for by a $5,000 trust fund left by President...
Several parents of the children also gathered in the parlor of the House to watch a program of entertainment that was arranged by James M. Mixter '40, Harold C. Palmer '40, and Peter E. Pratt...
Last fortnight was an important one for parlor Communists and students of caricature. Two of the ablest satirists in the U. S. published books.* Apart from the artists' hatred of war and fascism, and unswerving devotion to socialism, neither books nor authors had anything in common...
Back from the football field with a sad eye and a heavy heart. But, Lord, how the players in our camp did fight! Methinks it ungentlemanly bold to call it "moral victory", but the soldiers of Harvard worked with each other like the very wheels of a parlor clock. In the stadium came into my head the words...