Understanding of the nature of the afterlife shifted as Americans, North and South, comforted themselves with the notion that heaven looked like their front parlors.
Some interiors, such as discotheques, require excitement and other interiors, such as funeral parlors, require serenity or dignity.
Dr. Rahul Gupta, health officer for the Kanawha-Charleston and the Putnam County Health Departments, ordered closed all restaurants, body art parlors and schools that receive water from the West Virginia American Water company.
Hipsters are certainly smitten with all things bespoke and dapper, and they mayhaps be getting into parlors, too.
"So, I began to think, If they can do it, why can't I?" Hu was a natural; he bribed judges — first with cigarettes, then banquets, then trips to massage parlors.
Bin Laden's description of the current state of affairs — "Israeli tanks rampage across Palestine" — eliminates, naturally, any mention of the suicide bombers of Islamic Jihad and Hamas, of attacks on bus stations and pizza parlors.
The noise of the radio in their parlors had drowned out the sound of the real train whistle tooting round the bend not far from their homes & cottages.
Chinatown had long been home to street gangs, which managed illegal gambling and massage parlors and extorted money from local businesses.
In the red-light district, called the Wallen, girls from Russia, Nigeria, Guatemala, and Thailand stand like exotic merchandise behind glass storefronts, many dressed only in panties, beckoning customers to come into their parlors.
Islamic groups criticized the President's laissez-faire approach to alcohol sales and massage parlors on the Maldivian islands, and the old regime kept stirring the pot.
The yakuza operated high-stakes games with hanafuda cards in casino-like parlors.
