Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...beer at home but succeeded at neither. His prim "Mam" made a religion of getting along; eventually she retreated into what Bennett calls "her flat, unmemoried days," like a meeker George III. Young Alan sought glamour in Leeds' double-decker trams, musty mystery in the artifacts of Grandma's parlor. Later he would realize he had a great subject in this gray world. It begged for a wit that evokes nostalgia and distress, and Bennett became its not-quite-lyric poet: the bardof the drab...
When David returns to his dorm at the university, he tells his roommate Miguel (Francisco Gatorno) that he met a homosexual at an ice cream parlor. "How do you know he was a homosexual?" asks Miguel. David replies, "They had chocolate, but he ordered straw-berry." Miguel tells David that Diego is a subversive and that it is David's patriotic duty to return to Diego and attempt to extract information from him. And so begins the friendship between David and Diego...
...yesterday morning, a line offirst-years stretched from the registration areain the upstairs Union parlor rooms down to thedining hall...
...Canaday pizza parlor, for instance, holds a "pizza porto" to process the dough made by the bread maker, an "electric bread-slicing system," refrigerator, microwave, toaster over, blender, coffee maker, espresso machine, coffee grinder and an instant water boiler...
...have imagined other sources for their rights besides the Almighty. The Declaration mentions "the Laws of Nature." But it immediately adds, ". . . and of Nature's God." Wisely so. The past 200 years have shown that nature is a distressingly malleable concept. It is a philosopher's parlor trick to collapse it into history (nature in time) or will (nature in us). When such philosophies seeped into politics, they spawned communism and Nazism. It is also true that God -- and various gods -- has covered a multitude of political sins over the millenni. But in the modern world, rights fare best when...