Word: parquet
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Meanwhile, at the Kong’s upper levels, clusters of grad students and Cambridge locals share Scorpion Bowls and draft beer. A few grind to the rhythms of Ashanti and Aaliyah on the small square parquet dance floor, while others take aim at the dart boards hung beside a framed Playboy cover from 1982 announcing steamy images from “The Harvard Scene...
...Bush's visit to Beijing last year, the look of pleasure and appreciation the President had to sustain must have left creases in his face. The dancing that can sometimes be required at state functions is particularly unwelcome for Bush, who doesn't really like to squeak across the parquet...
...entryway, which he dubs “the ’burbs” because it is removed from the main Eliot courtyard, the suite is best known among Eliot residents for its massive and comfortable brown couch, nicknamed “Cocoa.” The mantelpiece, the parquet floor in the bathroom and Butler’s well-selected prints lend the suite a distinctively twenties air. The built-in cabinet and bar are “conducive to parties—cocktail parties,” Butler amends. It is hard to imagine any other kind...
...live alone in a shingled cottage by the shore. Every morning I get up from my feather bed, putter across my shiny parquet floors and eat breakfast in my sun-filled kitchen as I wait for the chauffeur to swoosh me off to my job--as a bookie for the local crime ring...