Word: parlor
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...bars and restaurants, where, I learned, it is polite to put a towel on your chair at lunch. I also checked out bakeries, one of which sells bread in the shape of various anatomical parts; a beauty salon called Adam and Eve; and the Ladybel massage parlor, where a sign reads WE SPEAK F-GB-D-NL-I-SP (that's French, English, German, Dutch, Italian and Spanish...
...ALREADY WON THE $1 MILLION PRIZE ON "SURVIVOR." THEY ARE BASED ON RUMORS, PRESS REPORTS AND READER CONTRIBUTIONS, AND ARE THUS UNSUBSTANTIATED BY ANY JOURNALISTIC STANDARD. THE CORRECT ANSWER MAY INDEED APPEAR SOMEWHERE IN THIS SPACE, BUT ANY VERISIMILITUDE IS, REST ASSURED, PURELY COINCIDENTAL. THIS IS A PARLOR GAME, PEOPLE. THE DETERMINEDLY INCURIOUS, HOWEVER, MAY WANT TO STOP READING, BECAUSE WE MIGHT JUST GET IT RIGHT...
...Kraus' pitiless warning. But with Primary Colors in 1996, Joe Klein made himself an exception to the rule. Klein's first novel managed to survive the gimmickry of its initial publication. It was released, as the world will recall, under the byline Anonymous, making Guess the Author a favorite parlor game along the Washington-Manhattan media axis. With its deft plotting, crackling dialogue and a raft of engaging characters, thinly veiled and drawn from real life, Primary Colors remains an essential document of the Clinton...
...pretty islands, the Strait of Georgia, lush forests, a span of glaciers, coastal mountains that sweep into the sea and waterfalls so close you can almost touch them. The trip, says Savio, is "on the short list of the most beautiful in North America." Be sure to book the parlor class (for about $57), where you will eat well in a dining room, relax in a club car and gaze out picture windows. From May through September, Wednesday through Sunday, the train leaves North Vancouver at 10 a.m. and returns at 4 p.m., with a two-hour stopover in Squamish...
Chen said office and meeting spaces will be moved into the parlor on the western side of the building during construction. She said the spaces will be moved back to the renovated sections of the building before school starts in September...