Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...book, clapped my hands for joy, and sat down for a good time. Now usually Waugh is excruciating and malevolent and vastly inventive. But not in "The Loved One." It is chiefly a one-joke book, and the joke isn't very good--it's about funeral parlor techniques--nor is its effect savage. So practically nothing of Waugh is there--little malevolence, less humor, and no inventiveness...
...factories and offices began letting the help off early. When they didn't, the help just stayed away. There were 20,000 absentees in Detroit automobile plants on the day after the heat wave began. Attendance at big-league baseball games dwindled. Women went on sitting under beauty-parlor hair dryers (see cut) but only after stripping off half their clothes and donning toga-like sheets...
Family Circle. In Cleveland, Beer-Parlor Owner Stanley Siemen sued his in-laws for alienation of affections, charged that they had encouraged his wife to smooch the customers into buying more drinks...
...bookish but unpretentious sort, Allen likes to play parlor word-games, cowboy pool and the snare drum, clock track meets, paint in water colors, study his fellow man on street corners, and trade ideas about everything from college-girl fashions to Jake Kramer's backhand...
...just what the skipper ordered, although the skipper wasn't aboard. Greying Henry C. Taylor, crack sailor and textile merchant, sat in his parlor at Cold Spring Harbor, L. I. He had Baruna, a trim, 71-foot yawl, built for him ten years ago. Twice he had entered the Bermuda race, finished first both times. This time, his three sons, all Navy veterans of World War II, were taking over for him. He had taught them the ABCs of sailing almost before they were out of diapers...