Word: parlorized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will take them back. . . and refund the money paid for them." Richard Sears began his catalogue in 1888, and only a few years later was mailing millions of the "Consumer's Guides." Some of the goods promoted in the print-crammed folios look good today. How about a parlor organ...
...such fancies took hold of our lives, rather than merely titillating our parlor conversations, the ensuing panic would be something to see. Either we would head for the streets bearing clubs and torches, like the villagers in the Frankenstein movies, or we would bolt the doors like Howard Hughes, letting our fingernails grow toward heaven in prayers for a germproof sterility. That we do neither is as remarkable in its way as the Tylenol poisoning itself. The poisoning is, to put it mildly, an aspect of extreme behavior. One might think that its antidote would also consist of extreme behavior...
Harvard Square Theater, which closed Monday for extensive renovations is expected to reopen in November with two additional screens and an independently run pizza parlor in the theater's original lobby...
...milliner, a harness shop with cobbler's trade on the side. There was Chase's Variety. There was Cole's Hardware ("Quick sales and small profits," the proprietors used to say). An opera house, burned in 1928, was the pride of the town. An ice cream parlor and pool hall did business in the basement. Silent films with piano accompaniment were regularly featured. Young Elden popped the corn and hawked his products to customers at a nickel...
When I went to Iran three months ago, I thought the situation could not get any worse. I was wrong. The ruling clergy have turned Iran into one huge funeral parlor. Death and the related ceremonies are the only diversions available. A thick miasma of repression and gloom has settled on the land...