Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advocating insurance in a loud voice, refusing to take the responsibility of paying the premium, and then raising a loud howl when the building is half burned. It not only flagrantly disregards the true facts of the case, but is the usual type of crown to cap the parlor patriotism on the front pages of the last few days. The same attitude has been especially conspicuous in the case of the League and the World Court. Congress praised and advocated collective security and international justice, but when directly faced with the issue backed down. It is an attitude which...
John Q. Dohp's real name is David Oliver. A crack cameraman who has cranked for Universal and other companies for 18 years, David Oliver has also been an energetic parlor mimic. When his friends told him he belonged in pictures, he modestly denied it. His unpremeditated debut on the screen took place when Universal editors decided its sweepstakes newsreel needed the shot of a loser as a closing touch. Cameraman Oliver remembered that he held a worthless ticket, volunteered to act the role. It was good enough to call for an Easter encore. Last week, after sizing...
...Present is Earth's front parlor. . . . Archeologists and paleontologists pick the locks of the dim cellars of the Past, where Earth keeps the shadows of her fabulous beasts and speechless half-men, the ghosts of her once-glorious rulers. . . . Recent doings of diggers...
...Many a parlor entertainer has a stock of well-rehearsed piano tricks. Many a vaudeville performer can play Yankee Doodle and Old Black Joe simultaneously when his stooges in the audience suggest the titles. Alec Templeton impressed Chicago critics with more remarkable feats. When Glenn Dillard Gunn gave him a theme, he quickly responded with a choral prelude which the Herald & Examiner critic almost took for a Bach-Busoni transcription. Pianist Templeton also showed Mr. Gunn he had not only learned Rachmaninoff's new Paganini Rhapsody from records but also could rattle off his own piano transcription...
...parlor game of '"Consequences," unlikely characters are confronted with each other; their cross-purposed dialog and action are sometimes funny. As a serious literary trick, Plato used the same device; so did Walter Savage Landor, British Novelist Keith Winter's latest book is based on this "consequential"' scheme. Suppose that D. H. Lawrence, surrounded by sycophants, went to Mallorca to die. Suppose Noel Coward, vacationing, became his neighbor. What would happen? On this lively supposition Author Winter has written a tale that is blurbed as another South Wind but is more like Somerset Maugham's spiteful...