Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Archbishop of Canterbury sat looking on, royalty and servants danced the Paul Jones. There were also the Spanish gavotte and the flirtation polka, but the feature of the evening was a Highland reel by Princess Marina after only two days' coaching in Queen Mary's private parlor...
...made bad matters worse. Florrie's beau marries a wench. Tillie is embittered by her disappointment. Florrie dies despondently in childbirth. Only Ma's old friend, the Butcher Freiberg (Joseph Greenwald) maintains his customary calm, wagging his head as he reads Hebrew prayers in the Solomon parlor...
...tricks seem almost new. In a slightly different combination are to be found the ingredients which in Little Miss Marker made dimpled, piping Shirley Temple a national sensation. When Shirley holds a monolog with an imaginary person whom she addresses as "Mr. Cosgrove," when she gives herself parlor airs as a rival of her "new mother" for her father's attention, when she cheats a contemporary out of a pair of roller skates, she further validates her growing place as the sprightliest cinema prodigy since Jackie Coogan. Good shot: Gary Cooper reading What Every Young Mother Should Know...
...soundproof room that Westinghouse researchers call the "trick parlor," a knot of newshawks waited. The "trick parlor' is in the East Pittsburgh laboratories of Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co. On demonstration day last week it was pitch dark. Scheduled performer was Westinghouse's versatile "Ignitron" tube, invented by Drs. Joseph Slepian, 44, and Leon Robert Ludwig...
...onetime Labor M. P., Frederick John Perry started his tennis career in a suburban parlor. He took up table tennis at his home in Baling, became proficient enough to win the world's championship at Budapest in 1929. In 1930, when he was 20, his mother, to whom he was devoted, died after a long illness. Her son's nervous and physical condition was then so poor that doctors despaired of keeping him alive unless he discovered some absorbing outdoor interest. Perry took a six months' leave from his job in a London sports shop, turned seriously to tennis, which...