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por ler

  • n  reception room in an inn or club where visitors can be received
  • n  a room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax

  • There is an old-fashioned parlor game in which one person starts a story, another carries it on to a certain point, a third, fourth, fifth, et cetera, continues it, and the last .
  • A thought-experiment: What would become of the earth if humanity were to softly and silently and suddenly vanish away? What starts as a morbid parlor game becomes a mesmerizing and .
  • The Big Cypress bingo parlor is a corrugated-tin warehouse the size of an airplane hangar.
News & Articles

  • Lawrence massage parlor owner blackmailed workers in performing sex acts on clients, prosecutor says
    LAWRENCE -- Four woman hired as receptionists at a massage parlor said the owner lured them into prostitution and forced them to continue under the threat of blackmail, prosecutors say.        
    June 12, 2013 - Boston Globe
  • Raynham Park strikes deal with town over slot machine parlor
    A slot machine parlor at Raynham Park, the simulcast betting facility and former dog racing track, would pay the town annual fees of more than $1.1 million per year under a negotiated agreement between the developer and town officials, according to a statement from track officials.        
    June 12, 2013 - Boston Globe
  • Raynham board backs slots parlor
    The town of Raynham would get $1 million a year cash from a proposed slots parlor at Raynham Park under a deal that was unanimously backed tonight by selectmen. The former dog track, which hosts simulcast racing and is seeking a state slots license, put forth a deal to the Raynham Board of Selectmen tonight that calls for the track to pay the town $1 million-a-year for the first three years of ...
    June 12, 2013 - Boston Herald
Quotes

  • John Kerry in Forbes
    Not in the least,Kerry, the Democratic presidential nominee in 2004, said when asked if the furor over his comment had caused him to reconsider a 2008 race. "The parlor game of who's up, who's down, today or tomorrow, if I listened to that...
  • John Ratzenberger in KCCI.com
    I met Paul Newman when I was a junior in high school, when I was the houseman in a billiard parlor in Westport, Conn.,Ratzenberger recalled. "He came in to shoot pool one night. I met him that one night and never saw him again, so I'm...
  • Simon Cowell in Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription)
    Simon said: "It had all the joy of someone singing in a funeral parlor."

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