Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...done at the last seven U.E. conventions, the C.I.O.'s slim little Secretary-Treasurer James B. Carey moved into the convention hall with a slate of right-wing candidates and a do-or-die campaign to unseat the Reds and bring U.E. back into the C.I.O. parlor. But, although he had collected the biggest bloc of votes since the Communists bounced him out of the U.E. presidency eight years ago, Jim Carey's words were still louder than his deeds. With mounting rage he stormed against the well-laid plans of the left-winger's President Albert...
Elizabeth Arden Graham, shrewd careerist of paddock (Maine Chance Farm) and beauty parlor, observed: "Women and fine horses are much alike. It is strictly a matter of conformation...
...minister, finding only a cook and a maid at her residence, forthwith made plans for hiring a butler, a chef, an assistant chef, a parlor maid, a chambermaid and a personal maid, and announced that she was ready to give a few parties to further international understanding. Said she: "I came for service." Unfortunately, Grand Duchess Charlotte was out of the country, shooting grouse in Scotland, so the new minister could not even present her credentials...
Carlos got his first lessons from Don Ricardo, the liberal judge who wanted to see "a democracy in the Locke tradition." But Don Ricardo sounded mild to Carlos after the young man fell in with some of San Marcos' parlor radicals. One of them, a sottish and oracular Scot, explained to him why radicalism would gain a hold among the Indians: "And rrrememberr also, Carries, the Bolsheviks may not be rrright, but they prrresent a hope. To the rrragged and the hungrry and the sick of hearrt they prrresent a hope!" Carlos remembered it a long time, especially after...
...tiny Redwater, with a population increase from 150 to 1,500 in ten months, has become a place where a man can spend some of his money. It has six new restaurants, a poolroom and bowling alley, three movie theaters. It also has a spanking-new hotel and beer parlor, where business is so good the waiters refuse to serve less than two beers at a time to a customer. Near Leduc, Imperial has bought a 160-acre field and built a village for 900 families...