Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chunky Premier Doumergue, Death's visit to his parlor (see above) was the climax to an exhausting week. At long last France saw prospects of a balanced budget, when the Cabinet met with President Lebrun and signed five of the emergency decrees outlined fortnight ago (TIME, April 16) which will pare $264,000,000 from government expenses. BUT the balance will be possible only if France's gigantic army of civil servants and her War veterans agree to accept the projected cuts in salaries and pensions...
...most important person to oppose any reduction in the income tax was none less than the Most Reverend William Temple, Archbishop of York. Long regarded as a parlor pink by most of the Conservatives of his flock, His Grace would leave income taxes where they are, apply almost the whole surplus to increasing the dole and relieving unemployment. In all churches of the Archdiocese of York last week appeared posters begging prayers "for the Divine guidance of the Chancellor of the Exchequer...
...business. These plutocrats sometimes had to wait a generation-seldom more-before high society accepted them. "A Jay Gould, widely feared, might be excluded from a fashionable yacht club, but his son George was easily admitted. The profane and scornful old parvenu Cornelius Vander Bilt was unthinkable in a parlor: but his grandson William K. Vanderbilt would see all doors open to him in time," The Author. In 35 years, Matthew Josephson has done a variety of things. Brooklyn-born (1899), Columbia-educated, after a year as financial and literary editor of the Newark Ledger he joined the post...
...insufficient training like to do those things. The flip of the finger over several keys, known as glissando, has been popularized by the radio comedians Jake and Lena, and organists devoid of taste are doing it in church. The same thing is true of the man who injects shaving-parlor chords into a hymn, and Sweet Adeline harmonization, and dominant-seventh Amens, and too much tremolo. . . . I should not permit him to play dizzy chromatics, or anything else, during the Lessons and prayers. What is to be done? Tell him in the gentlest, but most priestly manner, that all these...
Including a favorite parlor game with your magazine reaches an all-time peak of Perfection. May the Quiz column (TIME, Jan. 22) prosper...