Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...White House insiders go, the whole Jimmy Swaggart confession scenario was something of a national parlor game, not a live option. "The best thing to expect right now is our standard operating procedure," said an adviser. "He goes in, testifies and issues a brief one-sentence statement. That's the way we've done it in the past, and unfortunately, we've got a lot of experience in this." But there may be nothing standard about this operation anymore; Clinton's lawyers will have to be at least as hard on him as Starr will be, make him address every...
Speculation about who exactly might have leaked news of the Wills-Camilla meeting has turned into something of a London parlor game. The palace was furious at the suggestion that it provided the tip-off. Indeed, Prince Charles was said to be upset that word had filtered out; he surely understood that Diana's friends and fans would find it insensitive to have Parker Bowles meeting Wills before the first anniversary of the princess's death. Another theory has it that friends of Parker Bowles passed on the information in hopes that it would help redeem her reputation among...
...future. One editor offered what may be the ultimate tribute to the solemnity of the moment: "I didn't hear anything snide today." Handicapping the odds on who the next editor might be, while gently dropping one's own name into the mix, quickly became Manhattan's favorite parlor game...
Longfellow's daughter Alice co-founded Radcliffe College with Elizabeth Cary Agassiz in 1879. The college's first graduation exercises were held in the parlor room, above the same floor Washington's generals slept...
ALLEN GINSBERG (1927-1997) He emerged during the somnolent American 1950s as a bardic reincarnation of Walt Whitman. His incantatory, long-lined verses were styled not for parlor reading or classroom study but for public performances, featuring himself. He provided the music for the Beat Generation and a vision of modern malaise: "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness...