Word: couched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friends and relations throughout the land President and Mrs. Roosevelt sent their Christmas Card: a photographic portrait of themselves sitting on a couch beside a White House fireplace. Another portrait of the President was also being distributed last week by the U. S. Government. It was a photograph of the President in profile sitting at his desk, looking into space, pen in hand to sign a paper. Its inscription: "To the pupils and teachers of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt." Copies may be obtained from the Government Printing Office for 10? each, 100 for $7.50. U. S. Commissioner...
...takes stairs slowly and detective stories as relief from insomnia, and his old devil, indigestion, which confines him to the slenderest diet, has sapped his vitality in recent months. After his long summer holiday, he was back in Washington last week feeling so much better that he ordered the couch on which he used to lie in his old office removed from his new office...
...which inscriptions indicated was built by the Roman Emperor Hadrian, a life-size alabaster statue, probably of Hadrian, and a villa with remarkable mosaic floors. One design, composed of glass cubes tinted in pastel shades, showed a male and a female figure, representing Autumn and Harvest, reclining on a couch where they were served by a personification of Wine. "Among the finest antique work ever discovered," cried Professor Campbell...
...bending over a friend's shoulder; Crooner Lanny Ross about to eat a cheese snap; Dancer Clifton Webb holding the arm of Serge Lifar; Polo Player Laddie Sanford on a raft with his wife. Actress Mary Duncan; Mrs. Willie K. Vanderbilt honoring LaFayette; Douglas Fairbanks on a nightclub couch; Lawrence Tibbett in a theatre lobby; Doris Duke drinking champagne; Prince Chlodwig Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst drinking champagne; Cartoonist Tony Sarg drinking whiskey; Max Baer putting cold cream on his face; Cinemactress Dolores Del Rio going upstairs; Mrs. William T. Wetmore going downstairs...
Married. Johnson Olin Couch, son of Arkansas' Harvey Crowley Couch (see p. 53); and Anna Trimble of Shreveport, La.; in Shreveport...