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They did a 10-month remodeling that included making a television room out of a screened porch while preserving original details like the pecky cypress ceilings in the living room and library, the handblown stained-glass panes in the powder-room door and the Cuban tile floors in the dining room.
A Modest Home For Palm Beach Sarah Tilton 2012
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It is as if she were pausing to catch her breath on a powder-room settee at Bergdorfs.
The Flight of Europa 2009
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As the powder-room buzz goes, Obama may as well have tacked a sign over the clubhouse door: "No girls allowed."
Amy Siskind: Did Sexism Fell Kathleen Parker? Amy Siskind 2011
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As the powder-room buzz goes, Obama may as well have tacked a sign over the clubhouse door: "No girls allowed."
Amy Siskind: Did Sexism Fell Kathleen Parker? Amy Siskind 2011
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It is as if she were pausing to catch her breath on a powder-room settee at Bergdorfs.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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As the powder-room buzz goes, Obama may as well have tacked a sign over the clubhouse door: "No girls allowed."
Amy Siskind: Did Sexism Fell Kathleen Parker? Amy Siskind 2011
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By Friday she'll be back in the U.S. and Canadians will briefly discuss her the way the hosts of a party discuss the boorish party guest no one can remember inviting, the one who threw up in the downstairs powder-room sink without telling anyone.
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The site offers helpful advice, including calculators to estimate the yardage you'll need to reupholster your skirted love seat or redo your powder-room walls.
I Can Get It For You Retail Jen Renzi 2010
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Little Lord Fauntledubya and his regents Rummy and Cheney imagined themselves kings of the world, threw our most fundamental values over the prow of the ship of state and planted a "Mission Accomplished" banner on the iceberg it struck - all of it with less thought than Samantha Jones gives to a mid-seduction powder-room touchup.
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In my old house, I painted the powder-room a reddish-orange.
Vampire Kitchen (2) Walter Jon Williams 2007
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