Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WILLIAM McCLEERY is an American playwright who tasted the sweet success of Broadway during the late forties. Good Housekeeping, Hope for the Best, and Parlor Story were his big hits. Now he splits his time between his editorial duties at The University, a Princeton quarterly, and the playwrighting courses he gives to undergraduates there. This week he has been at Harvard to offer benevolent advice and the salty insight of a rugged theater veteran to the Harvard cast of his new play Hardesty Park. The play opened last night in the Adams House dining room for its "pre-Broadway...
...outskirts of Exeter was not just extraordinary or inexplicable but downright impossible. How it came to be, no one knows to this day. At its appearance, many residents of the area become concerned, indignant, scandalized, outrageous--or curious. And the curious ones became patrons of this massage parlor...
Decent citizens attempted legal and political action, but to no avail. It was the Garden Club, vigilant and resourceful, which provided a solution. It simply sent observers to record the license plate numbers of cars seen at the parlor, looked up the owners' names and telephoned the wives of the massages. Before long business had declined, the place was forced to close, local homes and gardens were safe once more...
...Then he switched channels to see the Miami Dolphins take apart the Oakland Raiders. Unlike his fellow fans, though, Martin was actually hard at work all the time he was staring at the tube. Soon after the final gun sounded, he received a call from the Churchill Downs bookie parlor across town and announced his initial betting line for the Super Bowl: "Miami by six." Within seconds Martin's pick, subject to later change, was being posted at Churchill Downs. Within minutes the point spread was being flashed to bookies across the country as the most authoritative gambling line...
...cost $60 per month to heat, the rent averages only $150, half that charged for Chicago apartments of similar size. Tenants use every nook and cranny, partitioning off sleeping berths, closets and workshops with hanging plants or plywood. One innovative interior decorator, who moved into a former ice cream parlor, now serves cocktails instead of sarsaparilla from behind the old soda fountain...