Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them to invade the posh Dolphin Bar, retreated in confusion when the bartender gently explained that she was underage. One African girl, sent to test segregation in the public toilet facilities, forgot to take the necessary penny for the slot. Another girl walked into the swank Ann Douglas beauty parlor and demanded "the works." She was dumfounded when they offered to serve her; expecting a refusal, she had brought no money...
...father fallen for the Fatherland and boyishly eager to inherit his epaulets. Walter is a bit of a bully who takes after his boodle-grabbing, dirndl-lifting father, the local Nazi Kreisleiter, but even so is devoted to his devoted mother. Karl, son of the town's beauty-parlor proprietor, is an awkward, intense Bub who discovers to his horror that the girl he worships is his father's mistress. Klaus is a charming mooncalf, innocently in love with a pretty schoolgirl...
...damn quick. An amateurish abortion at tempt fails. The husband twigs. His broth er and another big swaddie catch Arthur in the dark and wallop the living tabs off him. But a week later the young dog is out of bed again and rolling all over the parlor floor with that pretty little tuffey-apple he met in the bar. Will he marry her? Maybe. Will he stop fighting? "Ever see where not fighting gets...
...worship his mother? If so, it supports the old hypothesis that the men who adore their mothers lean toward the Left, while those who idolize their fathers lean toward the Right." Whether or not Tynan is correct about Brecht, he certainly has the makings of a fascinating psychological parlor game...
...Auntie sits in the parlor listening to French art songs on the phonograph. They sound, she says, "a little like...