Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hopkins was feared and hated by men of all parties. Noting that Harry "was addicted to the naked insult," Sherwood quotes Hugh Johnson without disapproval : "He has a mind like a razor, a tongue like a skinning knife, a temper like a Tartar and a sufficient vocabulary of parlor profanity-words kosher enough to get by the censor but acid enough to make a mule-skinner jealous . . . He's just a highminded Holy Roller in a semi-religious frenzy...
...shirt and a double-breasted blue suit. The news came to him in a shout which he heard through the closed door of his sitting room. Newsmen had just got the flash of Tom Dewey's concession. A few minutes later the President invited the newsmen into his parlor. As each came by he shook hands and said, "Thank you, thank you." Harry Truman's palm was moist, and behind the thick glasses, tears rimmed his eyes...
...beds have been set up in the PBH parlor, and office desks will be revamped to accommodate blood typing equipment. Hyde added that a doctor and a staff of Red Cross nurses will attend donors at all times...
Ostensibly Faustus is the biography-in-progress of a fictitious German composer, Adrian Leverkühn, who was born in 1885 and died insane in 1940. The biography is being written during World War II by his lifelong friend, Serenus Zeitblom, a professor, a dedicated parlor humanist and a typically humorless academic product of pre-Hitler German Kultur. This combination of dates, musical genius and philosophical reflection gives Mann, as his old readers could easily guess, a chance to air his views on such Mannish concerns as the problem of the artist in society, the free play of mind...
Actual donations will be received Monday and Tuesday, November 8 and 9, when a portable bloodmobile unit takes over the main parlor of Brooks House from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. All blood collected will go to those who cannot afford regular hospital transfusions...