Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...early days of the Fascist dictators, U. S. citizens, confident that it could not happen here, made a political parlor game of speculating on a hypothetical U. S. dictator. After recent events in Europe the parlor game has become a little gruesome...
...county chairman of the W. C. T. U. in the 1920s she had led a series of violent raids until she was sued for smashing up a soft-drink parlor. She was also imprisoned for a year for trying to collect $10,000 on a forged note from the estate of an eccentric Le Mars lawyer named T. M. Zink. This year Mrs. Knox knocked out the teeth of a relief official at a meeting where she was protesting the laying off of Sumner Knox. When neighbors began to note the absence of Mr. Knox and Mrs. Trow, Le Mars...
...life. He was lucky in Miss McSwigan. As a reporter on the Pittsburgh Press she interviewed him in 1927 when the Carnegie International Exhibition first accepted a Kane painting. During the last two years of his life she spent two or three evenings a week in the cluttered Kane parlor, filling four big composition books with his reminiscences. A work of taste as well as devotion in its straightforward arrangement, Sky Hooks is as faithful a mirror of Kane's life as his painstaking pictures are of what...
...trains will carry parlor car, sleeping car, and drawing room accommodations and the other train will have day coaches only...
...round trip rates for these trains are as follows: Parlor car seats, $13; sleeping car, $13; drawing room, $15 per person (minimum of four persons); day coach, $7.50. A bus will be run to and from the New Haven Station and the Yale Bowl at an additional cost of $1 per person for the round trip...