Word: parlorized
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Question: What Chinese parlor game swept America in the 1920s...
...they went--Reuben Askew, Alan Cranston, John Glenn, Gary Hart, Ernest Hollings, Walter Mondale, and George McGovern--walking in single file in Cambridge on their way to Steve's Ice Cream Parlor...
...cream at the counter. Mondale pushed himself ahead of the pack and insisted on being first. Said Mondale, pensively as he scratched his head, "Gee, I can't decide. There are too many flavors from which to choose." Mondale then abruptly turned to the other customers in the parlor. "Excuse me, people What's supposed to be the best ice cream around here...
Tugging at hems has been a feminine wile ever since skirts got off the floor, but more and more U.S. girls are now looking for a new parlor trick. Their skirts are soaring so high that no amount of hemming and hauling could help them hide those inches above the knee. Recently imported from Paris, the short, short skirt has been gleefully adopted by the avant-garde among U.S. teen-agers and coeds as the perfect complement to patterned stockings and leather boots-usually white. From San Francisco coffeehouses to Manhattan discotheques, girls are beginning to reveal more thigh than...
...that August of 1927, when I was a Harvard undergraduate and, indeed, an editor of The Crimson, I visited the funeral parlor in East Boston where Sacco and Vanzetti were lying in state. On their temples I saw the daubs of white which were used to cover the burns where the fatal electrodes had been attached...