On the parlor floor, she left one door leading downstairs untouched, its darkened wood and markings a testament to the home's history.

WSJ: Bed-and-Breakfast With Lively Talk

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

NPR: Gonzales Resigns as Attorney General

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?

WSJ: The World's Greatest Athlete?

One senses Afghanistan has been waiting in the president's parlor.

WSJ: Peggy Noonan: A 'Necessary' War?

Journalist Graeme Wood strapped on one of these bracelets from BI Incorporated and visited a pizza parlor in (coincidentally) Pennsylvania to see what kind of reaction he would get from strangers.

FORBES: GPS bracelets could solve our prison overcrowding problem

Scot Stokes tried to use a trust, with Orr as one of the trustees, to defer capital gains taxes on his sale of a pizza parlor in Butte, Mont.

FORBES: If It Sounds Too Good...

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