Word: couched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jory), a pair of major league magicians, are apparently having a contest to see which one can trick the other. You will then be utterly mystified when the great La Tour is found stabbed to death; when a young man in a raccoon coat turns up under a collapsible couch; when two deformed characters, one of them only able to speak with his fingers, crawl through a window and try to drag off La Tour's corpse, which falls into a subterranean chamber full of canvas ghosts; and when a police sergeant solves the not particularly pressing problem...
...lists of Morgan "friends" who were cut into stock deals below the market included the names of New Jersey's Senator Kean, Massachusetts' Lieutenant Governor Gaspar Bacon, Edgar Rickard, business associate of Herbert Hoover, Arkansas' Harvey Couch, now on R. F. C., Connecticut's G. O. P. Boss John Henry Roraback. The only "friend" revealed as having turned down a Morgan offer on ethical grounds was Board Chairman Edward Grant Buckland of New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R. Partner Whitney made a spirited defense of his firm's practice on the ground that...
Harvey Crowley Couch, president of Arkansas Power & Light Co., R. F. C. board member LL.D...
...have suffered from neglect, he gained in independence and self-sufficiency. Then there were always the summer holidays at Barmouth, at John o'Groat's, or on the island of Jersey, where he climbed rocks and swam with such of his father's students as "Q" Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. On one occasion, at Cadgwith it was, young Grant surprised Madame Modjeska and Forbes-Robertson deuning the "ample bathing dresses of the time" under enormous towels. "Go away, rude little boy", one of the ladies called out; and he ran off ashamed at his unmannerly curiosity...
...sharply did this last seem aimed at Japan's position in China that the world cocked an eye at Washington, where Japan's chief delegate to the London Conference, Viscount Ishii, was momentarily due, to sit on President Roosevelt's famed black leather couch and talk as friends, face to face, about what the world needed. It even looked as though President Roosevelt, having melted Europe's frozen attitudes, was prepared to cool the runaway conflagration in Asia...