Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...editorials on teaching and scholarship. But you all know we like teaching and hate scholarship. We might disclose another deficiency in the Freshman year, but, thank God, we are bored to death with it. We do not even feel strong enough to tackle the football team, those parlor pink iconoclasts in the NSL, or Mr. Roosevelt, whom you may have forgotten is one of our former Presidents...
Despite the imperfections which are obviously due to the early stages of the business, these "sleeper buses" are far more comfortable both day and night than the conventional "parlor car bus," or the day coach of the railroads; are cheaper than even "tourist sleepers;" offer the great middle class of travelers a novel, adventuresome medium for the long journey from the coast to the Middle West; will no doubt be in the near future greatly improved and extensively used...
...labor minorities. Senator Millard Tydings of Maryland proposed to amend the bill by making it illegal for anyone-not merely employers-to coerce an employe to join or not to join any union. He was answered that such an amendment would "weaken the bill." Labor organizing not being a parlor game, the amendment would obviously have prevented the A. F. of L. from using some of its "strongest" arguments, would have given some employers a legal pretext for interfering with the organization of their employes. Just 21 votes were mustered for the Tydings amendment, so it went to defeat...
...hostess: "You sit here and smile and talk about mistakes and starving men and studying art at Columbia and what does it all amount to?" Mr. Bach finds, apparently, that it amounts to the inevitable disintegration of capitalistic society, and ironically points out, in "So You're a Parlor Pink," that the nice, humane, middle-class intellectuals who toy with communistic theories contribute materially to their own subversion; he concludes on a note of cynicism wherein he ventures to predict that "during the fundamental crisis" a few Parlorites may go with the revolution, but that the majority will complete...
Typical of the May Day spirit is the scientific dissection of that anigmatic animal, the parlor pink, with an explanation of how he happened to get into the parlor in the first place. "Publish of Perish" shouts forth from the Elliothousetope the atrocitties practiced upon the HArvard faculty in a bit of muckraking of which Upton Sinclair himself could be proud. Not even the short stories have been allowed to slip into a flaccid groove, as so many of the capitalistic short stories have the habit of doing. One tale of a Kansas kindergarten teacher who loses a first-class...