Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Third, spicy and well-advertised novels--Lady Chatterly's Lover, The Story of O, Marquis de Sade's Complete Works (in French). Also included here are such under-the-pillow classics as Come to My Parlor, which was widely banned when first published...
...century and long famed as the "bookmaker to the Establishment," the snobbish West End-based firm had all but faded away along with its blueblooded patrons when Stein's uncle bought the entire outfit in 1956 for a paltry $700,000. The son of a prosperous London horse-parlor and turf-news-service operator, Stein himself became Ladbroke's top man in 1958 at age 30. Last year he turned $1,700,000 profit from a total of $100 million in wagers...
...Walk down the Bowery. He headed for New York City, where he soon bought the money-losing World from Financier Jay Gould for $346,000. "Gentlemen," Pulitzer told his new staff, "heretofore you have all been living in the parlor and taking baths every day. Now you are all walking down the Bowery." The World started championing the workingman and the newly arrived immigrants. It was a surefire formula. In three months, circulation doubled to 40,000. Within three years, the World was the biggest paper in New York and one of the two or three most important...
...Expert Che Guevara and "Carlos" Marx glowered from windows and walls of office buildings. Banners were strung here and there with the slogan: IF YOU WANT TO BE A REVOLUTIONARY, START A REVOLUTION. One of the proudest achievements of Castro's revolution-Havana's Coppelia Tee Cream Parlor-was dishing out more flavors (54), as it likes to boast, than even Howard Johnson does. In the crowded dining rooms of Havana's five "luxury" hotels, three waiters orbited eagerly around each table, smiling broadly, rushing about with plates piled with steaming food and refilling water glasses after...
...remains part of the scene. A burgeoning, largely uncontrolled traffic in guns has put firearms into some 50 million American homes, many of their owners insisting that the weapons are needed for self-defense. In the movies and on television, murder and torture seem to be turning Americans into parlor sadists. A recent trend on the stage is the "theater of cruelty," and a growing number of books delve into the pornography of violence...