Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Minutiae & Half Truths. For cocktail party dissenters, as well as the burgeoning cult of parlor detectives, the chief stimulant has been an outpouring of critical books on the subject. The biggest seller of all (110,000 copies) is Attorney Mark Lane's Rush to Judgment, which in effect is a defense brief for Oswald. Actually, the author admits: "My book is not an objective analysis; I've never said that I believe Oswald did it or did not do it. I say that had Oswald faced trial, he would not have been convicted...
John Doe, 47, a tenement-dwelling Midwesterner in hock to the corner delicatessen, pursues solvency at the horse parlor and the poker table. His purpose is exemplary: he wants to move his seven-year-old son, dying of epilepsy, to a desert climate. A soft-hearted stud dealer pledges the necessary pot but dies before delivering. Doe next touches a baker's doughy widow, to whom he has previously applied for favors of another order; she indignantly draws the line at moneylending. Eventually, Doe's own wife stakes him, unsolicited. And off he flies with Junior, into...
...monthly meetings in Parlor B, like the one Sunday, by well-known Harvard Faculty members. Fifteen of the 100 tickets available for each meeting will be saved for Cliffies...
...program will be initiated by two members of the Kennedy Institute. Barney Frank '62, special assistant to the director of the Institute and Jonathan Moore, a fellow of the Institute, will conduct a post mortem of the recent elections at 7:30 p.m. Sunday in the Union's Parlor B. In the Kennedy Institute style, there will only be 100 tickets...
...host's nose, lashes the wife's bottom, smashes the family Jag, and generally behaves like the sort of fire-breathing, tear-dropping dragon who traditionally inhabits a medieval castle and wonders wistfully, as he adds another visitor to the three-story bone-pile in his parlor, why nobody loves poor little...