Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Late one afternoon last week a lone man, following a porter carrying his bags, traipsed through Washington's Union Station among the crowd hurrying to catch the 6 o'clock train to Manhattan. In his seat in the parlor car he was just one more traveler. Those who failed to recognize his square-cut features, his shag of greying hair, his solid bulk, little dreamed that they were witnessing the departure of a famed citizen on the greatest adventure of his life. William Edgar Borah, after 30 years of uncertain thought, was for the first time actually starting...
...three years old when I did that thing," said he. "Yes, I was lying on my little fat stomach on the carpet of mother's parlor when I painted the damned picture. It was with my first box of water colors. It was funny as hell...
...neighbor ordered them off his land, they had replied that they would leave if P. S. C. told them to. As for the shooting, John Crempa stuck to the story he had told at the time. He said the deputies had fired a tear-gas bomb through his parlor window, shot down his wife when she rushed out with hands raised. Then, he admitted, he had gone back to get his old Army revolver, but it had jammed when he tried to fire it. His daughter Kamelia had fired some shots later, but she was only trying to kill herself...
Meantime Loeb's funeral arrangements made fantastic news. A hearse with name plates and licenses covered arrived at Stateville for the body. In Chicago, a force of detectives kept the public away from the funeral parlor, and a cordon of police turned all comers away from the cemetery. Thereupon a rumor swept through the city that Loeb had not been killed at all, that the whole tale of murder and burial was a fabrication by which his family had at last bought his way to freedom. That made Warden Ragen laugh. Said he: "You don't need...
...plays, the U. S. is growing remarkably cynical toward two prime phases of U. S. life-business and politics. For months the fastest-selling non-card game in the U. S. has been Monopoly. Full of real estate, utilities, railroads, mortgages, foreclosures, rents, taxes, maintenance, assessments, it is a parlor pastime generally calculated to appeal to the baldest acquisitive instincts. Monopoly boomed through the Christmas season, was last week selling faster than ever...