Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...single sweep a special train carried President Roosevelt to Carrollton, III for the funeral of Speaker Henry T. Rainey, brought him back to Washington again after 30 minutes in the Rainey parlor. Two days later, the President left the White House again, this time for Hyde Park and his mother's home where he will remain until Washington cools...
...Somerville, Mass., Sign Painter Jeremiah Christopher Leonard bought a Madonna and Child from a junk shop for $6. For three years the painting hung in the Leonard parlor. Then it was shown to a doctor friend, an art connoisseur, who promptly called in experts. Boston Fogg and Metropolitan Museum people agreed that the picture was 400 to 500 years old. One expert thought it might be the work of Antoni Allegri (1494-1534), known as Correggio. If so, Sign Painter Leonard's painting might be worth...
...Abercorn's collection piece by piece to safety, Belfast police ringed the Castle to guard the Governor's treasures. Out came a $50,000 Van Dyck. Attempting to rescue a huge tapestry two strapping yokels got tangled in their prize and rolled spluttering out the front door. A dauntless parlor maid rescued the baton carried by the Duke of Abercorn's late father at the coronation of King Edward...
From dynamic Josef Stalin languid parlor Socialists get no help, but violent death-defying Socialists stir his sympathies. Last week he took under the Soviet Government's protection refugee children of Austrian Socialists who had the boldness to take arms and do battle in Vienna last winter against Austria's "Christian Fascist" Government (TIME, Feb. 26). Into Moscow rumbled a flower-decked train pack-jammed with Austrian moppets most of whose fathers had died fighting in the Schutzbund (Socialist storm troops). By twos and threes the children have escaped to Czechoslovakia where Soviet agents put them on the special train...
...Akron inventor, founded it with the help of Bishop John Heyl Vincent and there in 1885 Tom Edison paid court to Mina Miller. Later Inventor Edison be came honorary president of the Chautauqua Literary & Scientific Circle which for years scattered books for home reading over the marble-topped parlor tables of the land...