Word: couch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...infidelities, conceives an alliance with a cabaret singer (Miriam Hopkins). The cabaret singer has bad associations. When she sings the blues, she means them. Her husband is a thief. One night the socialite goes home to her apartment. While he is resting in a stupor on her couch her husband creeps into the other room of the apartment and kills her. The socialite is temporarily held for the murder. A fingerprint on a whiskey bottle exonerates him. He sails for Europe, reconciled with his wife (Kay Francis) and determined to stop guzzling...
Next day the Senate passed the following resolution and defeated an amendment to couch it in "more decent language...
Anita Colombo is everything that a Latin feels a woman should not be. Instead of being a voluptuous ornament to couch and fireside, mother of many, she is a spinster, an energetic, athletic, "emancipated" woman. Half-German, Jewish, she has a mop of un-waved blonde hair, a keen, sculptured face which powder & lipstick never have touched. Born in Milan some 35 years ago, she wanted first to be a tomboy. When Italy entered the World War she hurried off to the front, did Red Cross work, behaved (for a woman) preposterously: for gallant conduct she won the Bronze Medal...
...trial in which his sarcasm frightened but antagonized his judges, met death calmly, almost gaily. His illustration showed Socrates reaching for a cup of hemlock with one hand and pointing toward an ungracious sky with the other, while eight of his disciples, in attitudes of profound dejection, surrounded the couch on which he had composed himself for his final and most brilliant argument. A picture which, to an age which worshipped stoicism, had the emotional value of a Crucifixion, it achieved, like most of Painter David's works, immense success when it was first shown at the Paris Salon...
...smart young War Lord who has joined the Nationalists is "Chang Jr.," son of the late, barbaric Lord of Manchuria, Chang Tso-lin, he who reclined elegantly with one or more of his wives on a couch of tiger skins while an executioner, for his amusement, chopped off a head? any head would...