Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your uncouth crack about the little known origins of Irish hurly (TIME, Sept. 28) is most unTIMEworthy. It savors of the they-kept-the-pig-in-the-parlor ditties. It is no more probable that hurly started in a clubbed dispute over a potato than it is that tennis began in a courtier's attempt to ward off with a plate a hot dog bandied at him by an irate Louis the Whosis. Elsewhere you state that hurly is at least a thousand years old and the potato was not known in Europe until the 16th century...
This afternoon at 4.30 o'clock in the parlor of Phillips Brooks House the annual reception to the foreign students of the University will be held. The reception is to be under the auspices of the Foreign Student Committee, and the speaker of the afternoon will be Dean Willard Learoyd Sperry of the Theological School...
Playwright of The Breadwinner is William Somerset Maugham (Rain, The Letter, The Circle). Unlike the best of his works, this comedy is simply a bag of parlor tricks performed by dialog...
...respectable, of course. He was merely earning an honest penny by tending the furnace fire, while she, sweet and compassionate, simply felt a maternal interest in this rough, untutored youth from the sticks. Page by page he progressed from the cellar to the kitchen and finally to the parlor, where, beside a kerosene lamp and beneath the family portraits, interest blossomed into love. They invariably married. After he had made Phi Beta Kappa and had graduated summa cum laude, they went West to educate the heathen...
...story has to do with a group of rich young parlor Communists who want to go to Russia. They do not get there, but the father of one sends them to an abandoned mine in Nevada, where silver is unexpectedly discovered. Most of them then get married and return to the fold of what Messrs. Hammerstein & Schwab would have you know as Good Old Capitalism. One excursion into the office of a psychoanalyst provides merriment...