Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Tutoring of late has occasionally taken the form of "Seminars," or parlor lectures. The tutor charges a certain fee for admission to his room at an appointed hour, giving, when the time comes, as full a resume of the course as possible. Forty and fifty dollars an evening are often made in this...
...Cambridge. The odors of the cooking vegetables were abroad in full force, and with them were all the pleasant street smells peculiar to such quarters. Our reporter cut his way through them, and at last succeeded in finding the house he was after. He was gracefully ushered into the parlor and motioned to a seat. It was then that the interview began...
...BARGAIN.-Furnished Parlor to let with furnace heat, for remainder of college year for $100, at 60 Mt. Auburn street, near Holyoke...
When class day came he would invite us to his room to see the dancing on the green, which always took place in front of his windows. It was a funny room, and served him as kitchen, parlor, study and bedroom, all at once. He did not use the small bedrooms except as storehouses for his books and manuscripts. The furniture of the large room was simple in the extreme. Near the small stove was a plain table and two chairs. In one corner, arranged on his large handkerchief spread on the floor, was his clean linen, in another...
...these anatomical peculiarities of the female, she would doubtless far surpass the male at tennis. She can run faster, see more quickly, and is not so easily confused. But the scientific fact remains that tennis is not a game for the human female. The game of parlor croquet is best adapted to the peculiar construction of her bones...