Word: parlor
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There's an old parlor game, a kind of gut check for the heart and 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...
...Elementary School gets behind the counter of the Yellow Brick Road ice-cream store one evening every spring and fall to serve up an ice-cream social for the students and their parents. The semiannual event raises money for the school, boosts morale and polishes the ice-cream parlor's public image...
...Shawn, you know that blue sign that sits on the west side of town--next to Friendly's Ice Cream Parlor--that reads "Welcome to Harwich, home of the Rough Riders, 1997 State Baseball Champions?" Maybe one day, it will read, "Welcome to Harwich, home to Shawn Fanning, Internet visionary and the man who changed how we listen to music, watch movies and buy needlepoint patterns...
...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...