Word: couch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reporters, well-pleased, withdrew. As the door clicked behind them, the young man leaped from his couch, began hurriedly to dress. Then he skulked to the deck and vanished down the gangplank. He, nameless practical joker, was an impostor. The real George Gershwin was in the smoking-room...
...Manhattan, Henry L. Doherty, financier, lives in a bungalow atop a skyscraper,* sleeps in the open air. One morning he leaped from his warm couch, shivered, dashed for his clothes, forthwith ordered that his bed be put on a track, supplied with an electric motor. Financier Doherty now undresses in a warm room, climbs pajamaed into bed, presses a button, the bed slides out to the roof, an automatic door opening before it, closing behind it. Financier Doherty awakes, presses a button, the bed crawls into his room, the door clicks, he dresses...
...pounded on the U. S. Embassy door. A sleepy concierge came to find out what was the matter. "We want to see Ambassador Kellogg; he is visiting with Ambassador Herrick," demanded the reporters. "C'est impossible," declared the concierge. "Les Excellences se sont déjà couch...
...Next day Jacques?that was his name?entered my cabin with the manuscript in his hand. He tendered it to me with a steady look, but without a word. I took it in silence; and he sat down on the couch and still said nothing...
...most successful stories these British authors have given us are in humorous vein. "The Mayor's Dovecote", by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, is an amusing tale, a pleasant revival of human nature in fiction. "Miss Bracegirdle Does Her Duty", by Stacy Aumonier, contains a situation upon which Leonard Merrick might have congratulated himself. This is another story that inevitably suggests a much greater writer; would that Mr. Merrick had put his finger...