Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...last moment, very quickly. You aren't born there (a pregnant woman is never seen in the streets); and you don't die there either. As soon as anyone has breathed his last, he is immediately driven off very fast in a Packard to the funeral parlor, where he is laid out and painted up. So, if ever you see a very restful, very pink face in New York, it belongs to a corpse...
Monsieur Augusto V. Desclos, Directeur-Adjoing. Office National des Universities et Ecoles Francaises will lecture to members of the Graduate School of Education and others who may be interested, on "The French Educational System" this evening at 8 o'clock in the parlor of Phillips Brooks House...
Then, with a decidedly horror-stricken parlor remark, "Audacious" utters a "Do you know, my dear?" to the effect that Harvard men actually go to their nine o'clocks in full dress after returning from affairs lasting until dawn in the mauve ballrooms of Greater Boston. Tickled with this scandal, the dilettante society reporter proceeds to explain that the list is graded socially and not athletically. To quote: "If a man goes to Harvard and makes a varsity team, he usually makes the good clubs and therefore 'rates' at Harvard. But many who 'rate' at Harvard do not 'rate' socially...
...Enthusiasm. About 1,500 of the student body started bonfires after the meeting, tossed some of their room fixtures on the blaze, then scoured the town for combustibles. The general disorder culminated in minor riot, with freshmen battling sophomores for the privilege of entering Renwick's, an icecream parlor forbidden them. Traffic was blocked on Nassau Street (Lincoln Highway), New York-Philadelphia busses were halted, rocked. And, as usual, the pious statue of the Christian Student was toppled over...
...second meeting of the international Council will be held tonight at 7:30 o'clock in the Parlor of Phillips Brooks House. The subject for the discussion will be "The Monroe Doctrine...