• Essentially, OK Cupid opened a parlor-game emporium and then got down to the business of pairing off the patrons.

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  • "Originally in an old brownstone there would have been a parlor-floor balcony, " Mr. Peterson said of the retractable living-room wall.

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  • With the Olympic Games approaching, The Wall Street Journal set out to answer this parlor-game question: If Earth had to send one man to the Intergalactic Olympics, who should go?

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  • In a seeming acknowledgment of these dangers, the FBI issued a statement Tuesday stating it had "immediately sealed off" Dutschke's former tae kwon do facility -- which is near an auto body shop and an ice cream parlor -- and contacted public health authorities in the interest of public safety.

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  • Fifteen games will be available initially, across a wide variety of genres including arcade-style games, racers, parlor games - and a few that defy categorization!

    ENGADGET: Sony announces 'snackable' 100MB Minis for PSN Store

  • Designs range from the classic pizza parlor sit-down table, but with an added four-player twist that Ware has added for families and businesses.

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  • And who collects that 10% federal surcharge on the ubiquitous tanning-parlor deals?

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  • In the corner of the parlor, 21-year-old Yehia Saada was getting his first tattoo: his mom's name on his left shoulder.

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  • Six players from the Ohio State Buckeyes were suspened by the NCAA for selling or trading uniforms and other memorabilia to a Columbus tattoo-parlor owner, according to the Columbus Dispatch.

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  • My guess is, however, that their demagoguery is working in the sense that the average taxi-cab or beauty-parlor operator probably thinks that raising the top tax rates affect only millionaires and billionaires.

    FORBES: Lying With Words As Well As Statistics

  • Born as an ice-cream parlor in Cubao in 1975, Jollibee is now the largest restaurant group in the Philippines, with 746 branches, according to company statistics.

    WSJ: Sweet Spaghetti, and a Bit of Pride: A Jollibee Opens in Jersey City

  • Consistently predicting the outcome is a time-honored Washington parlor game, but rarely successful.

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  • Speculating about the next big thing coming out of the Googleplex is parlor game for some techies--and a full-time job for others.

    FORBES: How To Spy On Google

  • Rohan was telling me this in late July, in a parlor of a Southampton bed-and-breakfast where he was vacationing with his wife.

    NEWYORKER: Bones of Contention

  • This is one of those favorite parlor games where everybody is second-guessing and sending up trial balloons.

    NPR: Gonzales Resigns as Attorney General

  • Modern sectionals in pale gray wool cozied up to the twin black-marble fireplaces of the parlor.

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  • Some of them were gazing with dull avarice at the store on the other side of the road, the Ideal Traders Ice Cream Parlor, where fat kids in T-shirts were licking vanilla cones.

    NEWYORKER: The Elephant

  • The flatpicking turned heads, but the tune that followed it might be a fingerstyle blues, a Travis-flavored country bounce or a parlor song from the Carter repertoire.

    CNN: Watson leaves notes strung through music history

  • Son, 40, the Kyushu-born son of a pachinko parlor operator, got a degree from Berkeley and recognized the potential of software far faster than any of Japan's corporate giants.

    FORBES: Overreaction

  • Not long ago we lucked into one of the enormous royal suites for the night, named the Kipling Suite: polished wood floors, canopy bed, towering floor-to-ceiling windows lighting the plush parlor area.

    FORBES: Just the ticket

  • He's been an off-site chief executive ever since he bought his first RV maker in 1977, when he rented a one-room apartment with a single light and a black-and-white TV above a pizza parlor in Butler, Ohio (pop. 921) and commuted every week from New York.

    FORBES: Lord of the Rigs

  • Introducing the scene is a whispered harp-celesta fragment of the film's Prelude, spiraling into a close-up of Judy in the beauty parlor as she is being made up to look like Madeline.

    NPR: 'Hitchcock's Music' Scores Big on Suspense

  • We climb the winding stairs, past a sleek black entryway sculpture of dancing partners jutting up nearly three stories from a ground-floor fountain, and enter a parlor clad completely in copper, the metallurgical complement to the ballroom.

    FORBES: Mansion Of Secrets: An Espionage Expert's Outrageous Spy Lair

  • The blog Engadget called the app "fairly primitive, " and The Next Web said it amounts to "nothing more than a parlor trick at this point" since other location-based friend finders haven't caught on with the general public despite their buzziness in tech circles.

    CNN: Facebook quietly unveils 'stalking app'

  • Built for Frank Woolworth in 1915, the neo-French Renaissance mansion is 35 feet wide, with 14-foot-high ceilings, grand fireplaces and formal parlor and breakfast room.

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  • Flow-through entities are the S-corps and sole proprietorships out there, from the local pizza parlor, to a Ohio curtain maker owned by a few shareholders.

    FORBES: Are US Companies Paying Too Much Taxes?

  • Over nine years and at least a dozen sittings under a needle in a tattoo chair (Thomas said the tattoo parlor "is a great place for just hanging out too"), the 25-year old has had bits of his story inked on his body.

    WSJ: An Illustrated Guide to Devin Thomas

  • She cited Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner, " with its frozen polar wastes and specters of "Nightmare Life-in-Death, " which as an 8-year-old child she had heard the poet recite in her father's parlor, and she made several dark allusions to the alchemical experiments of Paracelsus and Cornelius Agrippa, two Medieval figures with whom Percy had become obsessed during his studies at Oxford.

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  • What will happen to NBC's once-dominant late-night lineup and its soon-to-be displaced Conan O'Brien has fast become the industry's favorite parlor game.

    FORBES: Entertainment

  • Later this summer, Parlor Entertainment will take the music outdoors and across the street to the grounds of the 18th-century Morris-Jumel Mansion for the 21st annual Jazz at the Mansion.

    BBC: Matinee jazz in a Manhattan parlour

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