Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Central since 1925. She began battling years ago as the once fine parlor and Pullman car service between New York City and her house near Millerton, N.Y., declined. Last year she doubled her efforts, after passenger service was stopped short of Millerton. When the Penn Central tried to end freight traffic on a 30½-mile stretch north from Millerton to Ghent, she sued...
...beauty of a natural setting. The views of the Smokies are spectacular, and campers are never far from clear mountain streams. Visitors can go hiking through the hills, horseback riding and fishing. There are also motorcycle and dune-buggy trails, the usual selection of Ping Pong and parlor games. Those who tire of sleeping indoors can take their sleeping bags to the woods...
Clinton, like the Laurence Olivier character in Sleuth, is famous for his love of intricate parlor games, and each night his guests are required to endure a cleverly plotted, punningly clued hare-and-hounds chase designed to reveal their past transgressions-and, it is hinted, Sheila's murderer...
...must have seemed like a good idea at the time, which was probably a year or two ago in some Georgetown parlor or Southhampton sun deck. Washington Socialite Barbara Howar would write a memoir of her already copiously documented career as a ringmaster of Washington's social capers, her marriage to- and divorce from- the heir to a construction fortune, her affairs and flirtations with the mighty, her fall from grace as a lady in waiting to the John son White House. At the same time, her constant companion, ex-Harper's Editor Willie Morris, would write...
...history is a bibliography of several dozen volumes (Green, Davis: A President Dies; the Assassination of Omar Kincaid. New York, 1960. Harper, Alexander: Banking Policies in the United States of Mexico During the Arkins Years, Mexico City, 1950). If Sobel and other players who take up his parlor game carry his obsession a small step further to absurdity, they can be expected to flush out some of the books behind these titles, then publish scholarly articles that take issue with the books, then letters to the editors, pointing out the errors of the articles. Author Sobel, in the meantime...