Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...latest parlor game of those who like guppies, goldfish and other watch-through-a-glass-wall pets is watching the work of ants housed in specially constructed glass boxes. First photos of these novel parlor amusements are presented here by COLLEGIATE DIGEST...
...park which Hubert Eaton, a Los Angeles mining engineer, developed. Mr. Eaton's 350-acre Forest Lawn Memorial Park, which has been copied far & wide, contains no tombstones. Graves are marked by $50 copper plates level with the ground above the body. Mr. Eaton, who operates a funeral parlor on his grounds, discourages ground burials, recommends incineration in his crematory, inurnment and safekeeping in his columbarium. Above all, he prefers interment in a crypt of his gorgeous, statue-decked mausoleum. A refined selling point: Before a casket is sealed into a Forest Lawn crypt its lid is raised...
...unexpectedly acquired, was the job of the Irish champion's Jewish manager, wily little Joe Gould. An unemployed dockworker a few months before he won the title, Braddock has since totally refrained from fighting while making $150.000 out of exhibition bouts, refereeing, sales of a parlor game called Knockout...
...string around her waist. Once, asked for a subscription to the Charitable Eye & Ear Infirmary, she replied that she had not known there was a charitable eye or ear in Boston. She drank beer at "Pop" concerts at Symphony Hall when ladies were furtively sipping sherry in the parlor. She walked down Tremont Street with a lion on a leash. Once when she missed a rendezvous with a coaching party she chartered a locomotive which she drove herself at 80 m.p.h. to overtake it. She was supposed to have paid Pianist Paderewski $3,000 to play...
Marriage Revealed. Floyd Bostwick Odium, 44, president of Atlas- Corp., divorced last year by President Hortense McQuarrie Odium of Manhattan swank-shop Bonwit Teller; and Jacqueline Cochran, 27, flyer, Los Angeles and Chicago beauty parlor proprietor; in Los Angeles...