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...track down an article that claims people near a small city in Kenya see the giraffe as a divine omen of good luck (close enough), which I used as a source for my piece, I am ready to tackle my next assignment: home remedies to remove cat urine from parquet floors. Florid prose it may not be, but according to Demand, it's what you want to read...
...this competition has a history, which echoes from the halls of the fourth floor MAC gymnasium to the dusty parquet of the QRAC floor...
Fortunately for us, however, it does not linger often or long at that level. As movies like this go - stately homes constantly arustle with the sound of lingerie falling gently to the parquet floors - it is quite a lively, and even occasionally a rather touching, piece. The Duchess takes in a young woman named Bess (Hayley Atwell) who is being abused by her brutish husband. In due course, she becomes the Duke's mistress, living more or less comfortably with the Duke and Georgiana. (It is a very big house.) Georgiana also takes a lover: a rising politician, Charles Grey...
Hoover was a difficult dog. Bassets are genetically narcoleptic, but ours made a case for canine Ritalin. He careered around the apartment possessed by a long-eared, drooling demon. He practiced situational bladder control on our cherry-wood parquet floors. He grew into 60 lbs. of torso with 3-in. stubs for legs, yet he could do a dead leap off the kitchen floor to swipe a pizza off the counter. Plus he bayed--a siren of woo-woos that endeared us to our condominium neighbors. But after every misdeed, he would turn his googly-eyed gaze...
...just another group of March Madness spectators. No one on the team could have predicted that the game would take on a new meaning a year later, and that it might have served the Crimson well to pay special attention to the team hoisting the championship trophy on the parquet floor...