Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unseen in this ugly age: no question but it's a worthwhile goal. Yet to seek it open-mouthed, like a herd of whimpering rabbits that can't see the forest for the dandelions, like the tiger-lilies that wilt away their stamen in anti-war meetings, like the parlor pussies mewing about the third international in the upper rooms of Adams House, to seek peace thusly in the modern saturnalia of all the other more valid causes of war, high tariffs, monetary friction, Father Coughlins, economic nationalism, and so on is nothing more than playing cat's cradle...
...come in from classes in 22 colleges, 160 senior high schools, 44 junior high schools. One journalism dean wrote that he had taken the test himself, ranked fourth in a class of 142. Many a teacher confided that he had taken home spare copies, used them as a parlor game...
...Palace price on busy nights is a major grievance. Around dinner tables one evening last fortnight passed word to meet at the theatre. After dinner groups of students, more boisterous than usual, began to gather outside the Palace and across the street at Costa's ice cream parlor. The Palace management, knowing the genesis of a riot when it saw one, quickly called police...
...city for a few hours. Walk into the Mayflower Hotel with me, and be jostled by a delegate of the American Historical Association Convention, or the more provincial delegate from a national convention of undertakers who thinks that "the new Supreme Court Building would make a swell funeral parlor...
...four years ago. He understood the questions perfectly, groped now and then for an English word or phrase but seldom for a reply. Mr. Spear, confined to bed upstairs, sent down a request that the eminent man should pose for photographs beside a bust of Socrates in the parlor...