Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...undiscovered or shoved out of sight. But last week there reached the U. S. the report of a young visitor to this major theatre of China's struggle-first white man to visit parts of the province in 15 years. What he wrote was enough to make any parlor warrior drop his teacup...
...much for the worse. In this lovodrama, she has to choose between a boring suitor and a crafty magician. The snave charlatan, David Niven, offers here excitement and some other things, too. With him, she is whiled through a hectic Hollywoodian adventure; they cruise around the world, sometimes doing parlor tricks, sometimes performing feats of magic. Back at home, though, the other suitor waits, offering her his stolid security. In the end, wistfully switching her skirt over a fetching figure, she chooses Niven, who turns out to be the homey type after all. The other lover fades away, leaving...
...James W. Fesler, who could hear the weekly broadcast much better in their own front parlor (in the studio the music sounds almost as if it were being played under a blanket), make special weekly train trips to Manhattan to see the Maestro conduct in the fiery flesh. Two Buffalo newlyweds recently made Studio 8-H their Niagara Falls. One Texan chartered a plane to get there. Refugees from Central Europe spend their first two cents on U. S. soil to stamp a letter to NBC asking for passes. Bootleg passes retail at $25 a pair. Last week, when Toscanini...
...simply a matter of keeping up with the Joneses. It is a question of help ing to keep the little Fuller Brush man out of the Joneses' kitchen for fear that he will soon get into everyone's front parlor...
...completely unathletic. "Ring Lardner once told me that the only exercise he got was when he took the links out of one shirt and put them in another. That goes for me too." He does play croquet, however-with a fierce desire to win, as he plays parlor games and bridge. Called by Ely Culbertson "the best amateur bridge player in the U. S.," he hates playing with his dub friends, tackles the experts without getting hurt, peppers the game with such comments as "I'd like a review of the bidding, with the original inflections...