Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...entire story takes place in a staid Victorian parlor an Angel Street, London, in 1880. Gas lights, spats, hand-kissing, penis envy and everything. Mr. Manningham (Edward Kaye-Martin) is tormenting his lovely Victorian wife (Innes McDade) in those early scenes, trying to convince her very subtly that she is going insane. Of course, in Victorian England, nothing could be worse than being called crazy. And how does...
...every chip purchased for casino tables, with additional levies for big emporiums, thus bringing casino players into parity with betting-parlor habitues, who are already taxed...
...Nevada's largest casinos, who built a fortune by stressing that nothing in the management of gambling be left to chance; after an operation for an aortal aneurysm; in Rochester, Minn. Harrah got his start in the 1930s by buying his father's failing bingo parlor in Venice, Calif., for $500; ever after, he catered to the small-time player. At both his Reno and Lake Tahoe gaming resorts, Harrah used computers to track daily profits and detect betting-table swindles. He also hired guards to watch for cheaters from high catwalks and through one-way ceiling mirrors...
...money as well as to her art. Her mother was a Gardiner (the clan that has owned a private island off Long Island since 1639). She grew up in a 23-room mansion on her family's estate -where she still lives-and was raised on cello lessons, parlor musical soirees and concerts at Carnegie Hall...
Defending Jewish Rights at Home and Abroad, Alan Dershowitz, professor of Law, Phillips Brooks House parlor at noon...