Word: parlorized
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...couldn't do a thing to bring him back to life. Nearly every night of their four-year marriage, they had walked down to the Sedutto ice cream parlor on the corner. He always ordered mint chocolate chip in a cup; she got sugar-free, fat-free frozen yogurt. Mike had suddenly lost his taste for ice cream. "I'm just trying to be a little healthier," he would tell her whenever she suggested taking up the old routine. At a late-September reunion of her family, he seemed slightly more animated talking with her father and male cousins...
...gone to the gym each day and devoted themselves to low-fat, high-protein diets deciding to re-embrace the sybaritic pleasures of chocolate. Across the Atlantic, however, where the threat of terrorism has been a way of life for decades and where lunch in a Tel Aviv pizza parlor or a night out in a London pub can quickly turn deadly, the impact has been more subtle, more measured...
...given Monday morning, kiosks around campus are bombarded with brightly colored posters: the English department extends a cordial invitation to a parlor discussion on close reading, or the math department sponsors a seminar on number theory. For the naive student, unaware of which department offers a strong advising system or which one caters to the needs of its junior faculty, differentiating among the undergraduate giants like government or history and the often-forgotten departments like folk and myth or Classics can be daunting. And a student’s individual needs only complicate the matter; would a hands-off, self...
...going to Paris next week to buy lots of tires, and he mentions the name of his hotel on the Champs Elysee. "Rooms in that hotel are $1,500 a night," Jerome, the other photographer, whispers to me. The merchant goes there because he likes the pizza parlor around the corner...
...Commonwealth sold the house to Andrew Cabot, who promptly resold it to Elbridge Gerry, Class of 1762. Gerry, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, dearly loved his “Mansion House” at Elmwood, and it was in the house’s parlor that he stood on March 4, 1813 to take the oath of office as Vice President of the United States...