Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...invent the Holt-Dern ore roaster. A moneymaker, he bought into banks, power companies, canneries, is today one of Utah's wealthier citizens. As a progressive Democrat, he was elected Governor in 1924, re-elected in 1928. A Congregationalist, he gets on well with the Mormons. His favorite parlor game is "Murder." Once when he was playing the murderer, he accidentally knocked out a guest.* Of military, experience the new Secretary of War has had none. As he set out for Washington, his chief interest centred in the Army's engineering projects. Said he: "I'm strong...
...Sunday Afternoon (by James Hagan; Leo Peters & Leslie J. Spiller, producers). Here is a play sure in its unpretentious telling of a wholesome, sometimes humorous, sometimes moving story. A frieze of homely figures on a Mid-western ground, One Sunday Afternoon opens in the shabby dental parlor of Biff Grimes. D. D. S. (Lloyd Nolan, an able new-comer). Stimulated by an old crony, a bottle of rye and innumerable repetitions of "in the good old summer time." Biff's imagination reaches sadly back to his youth in another little town. Nostalgia gives way to intemperate anger when...
Meanwhile, during the past month, the Committee of Nineteen's sub-Committee of Nine had been playing a diddling game of questions & answers with Japanese Delegate Yosuke Matsuoka, each side trying to outdo the other in feats of diplomatic finesse. This parlor pastime abruptly ceased as the sub-Committee buckled down to drafting the suggestions of M. Massigli and Captain Eden into form for action by the Assembly...
...Editor Mencken is little changed-stocky, slovenly dressed, wearing the best cravats that 50? can buy, still fond of draught beer and Baltimore seafood. He enjoys playing the piano with the loud pedal pushed down, singing bass in his cups, playing the fiddle Saturday nights in a parlor orchestra. But he keeps more regular hours now, leaves Baltimore less often. He reads The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn once a year, enjoys talking philosophy and theology with Baltimore priests. For shrewd Bishop James Cannon Jr., whose Methodist Episcopal Church, South, along with the Baptists, Editor Mencken used to bait and belabor...
MULLINER NIGHTS-P. G. Wodehouse - Doubleday, Doran ($2). More Jesuitical relations in the bar parlor by Raconteur Mulliner...