Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...colonial is something extraordinary. I know the stories and gossip about those stately old houses that were the residences of the governor "in the good old colony times." I know how the "Indian lover" used to leave off "wooing his dusky mate" and fire bullets through his Excellency's parlor windows; and how, in a later and more peaceful period, the high-heeled and powdered bevy of colonial beauties, whose memory Copley has perpetuated, filled these parlors. In short, I have become a thoroughgoing antiquarian, and am continually recommending to my friends the attractions of the historic walk...
Then into the parlor goes...
...Convention was called to order at ten o'clock, in a parlor of the College House, Hartford, by Mr. Dana of Harvard, Vice-President of the Association. Nine colleges responded to the roll-call as follows...
...SCENE, parlor. Student and lady friends. (The ladies are great admirers of the opera singer, Miss...
...parlor and other rooms...