Word: parlorized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Black Mask's early contributors rejected the class-conscious plots and genteel style of the British school of crime writing. "Hammett gave murder back to the people who commit it," said Chandler, who found the details of British mysteries as unexciting as "spillikins in the parlor." Hammett's early hero, the Continental Op, is a nameless abstraction of the hard-boiled ethic: "I pass up about twenty-five or thirty thousand of honest gain because I like being a detective, like the work. And liking work makes you want to do it as well as you can." His connection...
While some of the council rounded up stray reps, a half dozen ventured into Harvard Square, searching for something far more important than parliamentary legitimacy: an ice cream parlor with a short line. To no avail. Emack and Bolio's, Herrell's, Baskin Robbin's, and Brigham's all had mile-long queues. And by the time the bunch arrived at Store 24, there were only four minutes remaining in the recess, so the group returned to Emerson 105 empty-handed and out of breath...
Dobrynin has been in every classy parlor in Georgetown. He probably knows as many key Cabinet officers, committee chairmen, bankers, industrialists, journalists and other assorted U.S. power brokers as anyone in the city. Dobrynin has soared across the nation in the private jets of capitalists, put down a buck or two at the Kentucky Derby, poked around the Alaskan pipeline, biked in blue jeans with his granddaughter, and assaulted a Big Mac with a gusto rivaling that of the Chicago Bears' William ("the Refrigerator") Perry...
...course of the evening, Nick and Honey grow to be old hands at George's and Martha's form of verbal warfare/lovemaking through a series of parlor games: Humiliate the Host, Get the Guests, Hump the Hostess, and, finally and most deadly, Bringing Up Baby. None of the characters is spared by the scalpel of these not-so-playful plays. Father-killing, mother-killing, baby-killing--all are dredged up for common consumption...
...tune of "If You're Irish, Come Into The Parlor," and "Happy Days Are Here Again," the Massachusetts Democratic State Committee honored departing Speaker of the House of Representatives Thomas P. (Tip) O'Neill Jr. at its annual dinner last night...