Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addition to Patriarch Charles N. Teetor, Lothair and Ralph are important in the company, vice presidents. In the old frame house Charles uses what used to be the parlor, Lothair the dining room, Ralph the kitchen...
...Cooperstown, N. Y. is the Beasley School which teaches boys to concentrate by the very means which the Noise Abatement Commission deplores. Beasley School was founded in 1928 by Chauncey Haven Beasley, onetime Latin teacher at Pomfret, inventor of Golfits Latine which makes a parlor game of declensions and conjugations. Headmaster Beasley, aware that most businessmen must work amid distracting noises, devised two years ago a Concentration Course which has now become his school's chief feature. Every day, first thing in the morning, his 31 students (aged 8 to 16) meet and concentrate together. Older boys get harder...
...More Wheat" campaign was instituted by a well-known and widely advertised beauty parlor to popularize curves. Rather than merely give "hand-outs" to the reporters, the new publicity men attempt to create new situations which the reporters cannot ignore. Recently, many newspapers carried pictures of the driver of an ox-cart shaking hands with President Hoover. The man was supposed to have drives his ox-cart full of Aroostook potatoes all the way from Maine to Washington. In such a fashion, the potato growen set the name of their product before the public. The actual facts of the matter...
During the next 25 or 50 years, Mr. Averageman's house, according to Mr. Burchard, will lose its front porch which will become an enclosed sun parlor secluded at the back of the house with other living rooms. On the noisy street side of the house will be the kitchen and other service rooms...
...affairs." On his way to Montreal last month Monsignor Turquetil watched four men playing bridge. One bid a spade His partner, with four aces and three kings, passed. "I took one look at their hands,'' said the Arctic Bishop, "and then, overwhelmed, I moved into the next parlor...