Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Martinko & Co., 635 Sixth Ave., New York City, 35 years ago and was discarded by magicians because of its crudeness and as explained by TIME any person not totally blind could easily see through the trick. For a "consideration" I will gladly duplicate the trick in my own parlor using a broom instead of a stick and without flowing robes, wild eyes etc. and before any committee TIME wishes to choose. WILLIAM H. MOSELEY...
...Students." So intense was their rivalry that, when the two troupes met in Denver, they battled it out with fists. To the musical instrument trade of the U. S. this was a godsend. The mandolin was something new to most people, and in the 1890's, heyday of parlor music, that wiry-sounding fretted instrument became the rage...
...Metropolitan is offering, in addition to free dancing in the Platinum Salon, a double-edged bill consisting of a stage show starring the harmonizing Pickens Sisters of radio fame and a new Robert Taylor opus called "Private Number." It appears to be a romantic sort of parlor comedy with Loretta Young playing the seductive servant girl and getting all in love with the handsome rich boy. They go through the customary trials and after a reassuring struggle against the forces of convention and class feeling emerge safe into Curid's pure light...
...last week's Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. Harry Blotner, young Boston stomach specialist, published the first proof that a heavy drinker does not digest his food. Anyone can repeat in his kitchen or parlor the experiment by which Dr. Blotner arrived at his conclusion...
Marlen Edwin Pew was born in Ohio, left school in the seventh grade when his father died. A kindly teacher pieced out Marlen's book learning after hours, "graduated" him in her front parlor. At 15 he took to newspaper work, liked it, never lacked for a good job thereafter. He reported first for the Cleveland Press, worked on the Hearstian New York Evening Journal, was Eastern manager of Newspaper Enterprise Association. In 1912 he helped organize United Press, then edited the Philadelphia News-Post and was proud to be jailed overnight on a criminal libel charge brought...