Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...polite donning of Josef's brass buttons and his performance of the candelabra ritual serve only to embarrass Josef and frighten Marie. In the end the Prince has met Marie's mistress, Josef has done his master a good turn, and candlelight is indicated for both parlor and pantry. Good shot: Josef posing as the Prince, looking unhappy when the Prince's telephone rings, brightening when Marie suggests he answer it as the Prince's servant...
...officer stuck his head in the window and called: "Stick 'em up, Wilbur!" At that Wilbur grabbed a gun, fired through the window. The police returned with the opening rounds of a 140-shot fusillade. Mrs. Underbill got no more than a bad scare, but a beauty parlor operator in the next room was hit in the stomach, later died. Underbill fled from the house, fell once, disappeared. He was found at dawn, bleeding from back, neck, leg, arm, in a bed in a furniture store into which he had broken. "I don't think I can live...
...Francisco. In trying to convict him everybody framed everybody else." Practically every character in his books, says Hammett, he has known in person. As readers of The Thin Man can see by looking at its jacket, Dashiell Hammett is himself tall, thin, handsome, mildly theatrical. Lover of parlor games, including drinking, expert ping-pong player, indefatigable host, he likes to keep long and late hours. No busman on a holiday, he reads few detective stories, much philosophy. An insomniac, it often takes a whole volume of Oswald Spengler's Decline of the West to put him to sleep. Unenergetic...
...with a billiard parlor in Manhattan. In Chicago last week he won his divorce after displaying a bruise on his forehead caused, he said, by an ashtray hurled by Princess Nai Tai Ta. Golf in the Dark...
Roman Scandals (Samuel Goldwyn). When Eddie Cantor was a singing waiter in a Coney Island beer parlor, his comedy routine consisted of a song or two and a few jokes, original or stolen. Now that he is the highest-paid funnyman in the U. S. and a member of the Cinema Code Authority with President Emeritus Lowell of Harvard, his performances require such elaborate preparations that he can appear in only one a year. William Anthony McGuire, George S. Kaufman, Robert Sherwood, George Oppenheimer, Arthur Sheekman, Nat Perrin and Cantor himself collaborated on story or dialog for Roman Scandals. Several...