Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...figured to liven things up a bit by holding College Day at the Beach, Friday. Led by Pan-Am's professional joy-boy in Bermuda, one Dick Todd, all the college athletes and visiting ladies toddled off to the beach to engaged in the outdoor equivalent of parlor tricks...
...Biggest Thief in Town (by Dalton Trumbo; produced by Lee Sabinson) sets out to make a gay evening of a ghoulish subject. The scene is an undertaking parlor in a small Colorado town. When the rich man of the town is proclaimed dead, the undertaker, being broke, is at first resigned to the fact that the costly funeral will go to a firm in Denver. Then, being drunk, he blithely kidnaps the corpse. This is merely the start of the festivities, which really get going when it turns out in the second act that the dead man is not quite...
...these who like to play their poollate at night, the Harvard Billiard Room opening sometime next week will provide accommodations. Located directly underneath the newly opened Sea Grille on Holyoke Street the "billiard parlor," as its owner, Charles LaBreck prefers to call it, will have approximately eight tables...
...welcome him back to the fold when it turns out that his daughter won't marry the boss's son after all. Even a character named "Digger" O'Dell, an undertaker with a morgue full of morbid jokes, is not out of place in Bendix' parlor. Moviegoers may wish they had stayed at home around the radio, where someone could keep a hand on the tuning knob...
Four separate conferences are scheduled for this morning. One on educational administration will meet in the Parlor Room of PBH, another on elementary education gather's in Littauer Auditorium, and meetings of English and Social Studies teachers will take place in the Hotel Commander and Agassiz Theater respectively...