Word: parlor
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...straphanger standing on the bus because he couldn't get a seat is George Soros, the global financier who has the power to destroy a whole Asian economy with the click of a mouse. That guy in the pizza parlor who looks like Bill Gates - chances are it in fact is the world's richest man. The bearded guy who just skidded awkwardly by on the icy sidewalk - Saudi oil minister Ali Bin Ibrahim Al-Naimi, who with a couple of words into his a cell phone could drive up the price of gasoline at your local pump...
...slow," a former classmate said at the Oklahoma City home of Allen's mother. Mary Allen herself is marginally articulate. She sat barefoot in her parlor, crying at the mention of Wanda while a roach tiptoed over a grandchild's sneaker. A relative with Tourette's syndrome--one of several kin with disabilities--called, and the speaker phone broadcast a tirade in which he threatened a member of the defense team. "It's hard to believe," Presson said, "but Wanda Jean is the brain trust of that family...
...Yellow Oval Room and the adjoining room on the second floor may have spawned the most intimate and exotic stories. Adams gave that first public reception in that Oval Room, and it became Andrew Jackson's family parlor. First Lady Abigail Fillmore moved in her piano and her daughter's harp. When Congress anted up $2,000 for books, she established the first White House Library...
There's an old parlor game, a kind of gut check for the heart and the head. Would you rather be rich or pretty? Happy or famous? Is it better to be good or to be smart? For a while this race looked like a clean choice, more government or lower taxes, the Tin Man or the Scarecrow, the teacher's pet or the class clown. But with each freshly deadlocked poll, it is looking less like a clear choice than a hard one. And last week it became a real one as well, when voters finally got to watch...
Every morning Gottlieb and Collette provide a breakfast of fruits, cereals and freshly baked scones, which can be enjoyed either in the kitchen or outdoors on the patio. There is also a comfortable parlor in which guests can pour themselves a glass of sherry while browsing through guidebooks. And what could be more soothing than having Tucker, the golden retriever, nearby...