Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only just ceased to run rampant, the turbulent election of Andrew, Jackson comes as a welcome reminiscence. Even more acceptable, however, to us thin-blooded moderns for whom the only racy element in politics is verbal abuse, is the sight of a presidential candidate coming down from his parlor to exchange black eyes with the maligner of his backwoods wife, or, when president, firing his whole cabinet because they and their wives whisper unkind things about his favorite Peggy O'Neal. The career of this strong-minded young man is this essence of the picture: her service as inn-keeper...
...friends began dropping in at the big, yellow and white Executive Mansion. The radio was on full blast. Out in the garage, press tickers clattered busily. The gloom which had hung over the Landon campaign train in all its travels about the country began to settle over the Landon parlor as the radio announcers kept shouting monotonously: "Roosevelt ahead in New York, Roosevelt has lead in Pennsylvania, Roosevelt has 2-to-1 lead in. . . ." As he had on his train, Alf Landon, smiling, joking, puffing at an old briar pipe, did his best to brighten things up. About...
...first in a series on the subject, Sheldon Glueck '22, professor of Criminology, will talk in Phillips Brooks House parlor at 8 o'clock tomorrow night on some general aspects of crime. On Thursday, Frank Mabey, president of the Boys Worker division of the United Settlements of Greater Boston, will speak on slum conditions...
Addressed to a gumchewing audience which has power at the polls if not in the parlor, the News's editorials are simple, colloquial, concrete, hard-hitting. Publisher Patterson writes some himself, furnishes ideas for others to smart Reuben Maury. Sample excerpts...
...that the Twins Epstein could write dialog as witty as S. N. Behrman's, but were inferior to that oldtime Guild playwright when it came to the passages intended to convey deep social significance. A minority, not impressed by either Behrman's or the Epsteins' parlor politics, was inclined to call honors about even...