Word: parlorized
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...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...
...band of teen-agers ambled down the avenue toward the pizza parlor in Wrangler jeans, T shirts inscribed with U.S. ARMY and Adidas sneakers. Some exhibited the glazed stare and the jerky arm-and-leg movements that are the telltale signs of a Walkman wearer. Inevitably, a few hard-eyed, Camel-smoking punk rockers slipped into the crowd, their side-cropped hair adorned with spikes on top, their black leather pants punctured by safety pins...
Surprisingly, the city was Moscow, the avenue was Gorky Street, and the pizza parlor was a pitseriya, the first in a chain of 22 that an Italian firm plans to open up around the U.S.S.R...
...promised his father to keep the family together? Does he not search endlessly to find husbands for the dark-skinned sisters? Where, then, is his free time? How can his soul soar? Still, even with these burdens, the $40-a-week rug salesman (with a shoeshine parlor on the side) manages to realize a few grandiose immigrant dreams. With his employer, the mysterious, immensely rich Mr. Fernand Sarrafian, senior partner of the Sarrafian Brothers carpet empire, Stavros investigates new worlds, from race tracks to brownstone bacchanals...