Word: parlorized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...land of amiable anarchy. They eat what and when they please: "Sylvie liked cold food, sardines aswim in oil, little fruit pies in paper envelopes." Leaves and debris gather unswept in the corners of rooms; piles of old newspapers, magazines, tin cans and bottles begin mounting in the parlor...
...butter cookies of Ruth Lewis, Blair House's chef, who has worked her magic over a decade for Presidents and visiting heads of state. Reagan has sat in the library with the dark red walls where Andrew Jackson took coffee, and he has brushed by the shadowy parlor where Robert E. Lee turned down command of the Union armies in 1861. Abraham Lincoln used to wander across to Blair House during the Civil War, a troubled giant who came for relief from the grim story of war through friends and humor...
...wheel; he also can afford a chauffeur. Author T.H. White (The Sword in the Stone) used to barrel a Bentley around his minuscule Channel Island home of Alderney until the evening he dropped in-literally-on a fisherman friend; he drove the car right into F.F.'s parlor. Thereafter, he took to toddling...
Ever since Parker Bros. brought out Monopoly in the depths of the Depression, economic bad times have spawned board games for tycoons manques. Even apple sell ers could feel as rich as a Rockefeller if they had two hotels on Boardwalk. Business parlor games are again popular this recession-haunted Christmas. Avalon Hill, a Baltimore games manufacturer, reports that business games are now selling just behind always popular war contests like Third Reich and Gettysburg...
...parlor, no other topic is of such endless fascination to the British public. One typical observation: "He might decide she's too young for him." A housewife from Lancashire went on the BBC'S popular Today show to warble a special song for the occasion: "Diana divine, my sweetheart sublime." The composition, she explained, was meant to help the romance along and encourage Charles to propose...