Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...circle, a star, a plus sign, a rectangle, a band of three wavy lines. He started experiments with packs of 25 cards, five cards of each design. For subjects he used mostly students, some of them graduate assistants in his department. To visitors the procedure seemed like a quiet parlor game...
...milking a cow. He is taken a prisoner of war, but this hinders him very little first gazing soulfully into Jean's eyes or from playing the piano and singing romantic songs to her, or indeed from leaving the confinement one wintry night and bundling with her in the parlor...
...Some roads still operate a few of their own sleepers locally. Gulf, Mobile & Northern owns five; Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific, 25, all painted orange-yellow. Canadian National and Canadian Pacific own all their sleepers and parlor cars...
...plot, there is little that is new to the cinema in the story of John and Maggie Shand. Nor can the picture's charm be ascribed to Scottish atmosphere, scrupulously maintained, from the unavoidable scene in which Maggie and John sing "Loch Lomond'' in the parlor to the MGM gesture of reproducing in every detail a real Scottish railway train for one brief sequence. Behind such externals lies the warm, human sympathy of an author whose works should eventually prove as popular in Hollywood as those of Charles Dickens are at present. Good shot: Dudley Digges...
Evening came and the hour for the momentous sermon. Huge crowds jammed every seat in St. Matthew's Church and packed the streets outside. Suddenly guards discovered that the good Bishop was not in his study, nor in his bedroom, nor in his parlor, nor in his bathroom. In fact he was nowhere in his house. Slyly he had skipped through a back door and escaped the police cordon in a car bearing an Augsburg license plate. Squads of mounted police clattered up to St. Matthew's Church, but the Bishop was already inside and in his pulpit...