Word: parlorized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...typical programmed celebration was the recent wedding of Koji Takahashi, 26, an architect, to Kazuko Hasegawa, 23, at Meiji Memorial Hall, Tokyo's most prestigious marriage parlor. After the simple Shinto ceremony, capped by a sip of ritual sake, the groom, in cutaway coat and silk tie, and the bride, in a dazzling kimono, sat down with their 125 guests to consume a banquet, including lobster salad and ice cream. The master of ceremonies introduced important people from the couple's life-parents, teachers, bosses and friends. The guests offered presents. The current favored gift in Japan...
Concern over the number of establishments that serve liquor in the Harvard Square area has prompted a controversy that may keep a soon-to-open pizza parlor from catering to the thirsty...
...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...