Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...hardly sat down to whist in the parlor when my tormentor took a seat beside me, and gave me directions about playing my hand. I remonstrated with him, but to no purpose; he assured me, with the utmost candor, that his mamma liked to have him look over people's hands so as to learn how to play, and his father liked to have him watch and see who did the cheating...
...Vassar "the Sunday night `sings' have become one of the pleasantest features of the social life which centres round the Senior parlor. The entire informality of these `sings' constitutes their greatest charm...
...sympathize, too, with the man who knows that on Christmas night there will be a scraggly pine-tree in the parlor, and a gathering of the haut ton there in honor of his arrival. He will have to talk poetry with his aunt, and Greek with the clergyman. But "neque tu choreas sperne, puer," and leave the clergyman to learn from mamma how hard you have studied; she will make out a much better case than yourself, we assure...
...Gall and Spurzheim, and from other works, as the professor might select. I believe that if the thing is to be done at all, it ought to be done thoroughly. Moreover, the chair should be a movable one, like those connected with Cornell, which are frequently found situated in parlor cars en route from New York and Boston to Ithaca. - The Contributor's Club in the Atlantic for April...
SCENE, Ithaca, Parlor. - Charming Sub-Fresh to enamored Soph. "Now do sing 'Lagerbeer Horatius' once more, won't you?" Soph. grinds out the noble air of "Lauriger" with ill-concealed disgust...