Word: couched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...under the influence of that "luscious liquor" which Mr. Boyd-Carpenter found so prevalent in our academic circles, amused themselves by arranging our study in accordance with an American's concept of an Englishman's concept of an American college study. When we returned, Mr. Boyd-Carpenter found his couch surrounded by beer, gin, and whiskey bottles, the walls covered with choice excerpts from "Ballyhoo" and "College Humor." Mr. Boyd-Carpenter's conclusions bespeak the complete success of the "decor...
About the luxurious Executive Mansion Governor Murray wears his hat all the time. He greets all women visitors as "Sister." He does nothing for fun, except to sprawl out on a bed or couch where he likes to give interviews. Mrs. Murray, a quiet dark woman, keeps much in the background, paints oil portraits of her Indian ancestors, has a social secretary, goes to a few bridge parties. She seldom accompanies her husband around the State or nation on his speaking trips. She did go to California with him last year and then her friends gave her a "bridal shower...
Confirmed by the Senate were the appointments of Charles Gates Dawes to be president of R. F. C. and Jesse Holman Jones and Harvey Crowley Couch to be directors (TIME, Feb. 1). A new Senate rule stipulating that no Presidential appointee may be sworn in until two executive sessions of the Senate have taken place after his confirmation, was waived. President Dawes and his board rolled up their sleeves and started to work. Applications to share the $2,000,000,000 credit fund, with which the Administration hopes to check the downward spiral of deflation, poured into the Treasury offices...
...garden and a sow, A smokehouse and a cow, Twenty-four hens and a rooster And you'll have more than you uster. Last summer Harvey Crowley Couch, public utilitarian of Pine Bluff, Ark., chanted that solution for rural Depression as he boarded a train for New York. Last week President Hoover appointed this president of the Arkansas Power & Light Co., the Mississippi Power & Light Co., the Louisiana Power & Light Co. and the Louisiana & Arkansas Railway to be one of the three Democratic directors of the potent Reconstruction Finance Corp. Aside from his demonstrated ability, Director Couch could thank...
...would manifest itself in two ways. You would be reading at one end of the room and he at the other. It would be a new book he was reading?or perhaps a Flaubert, a Turgenev or a Maupassant. He would begin to groan and roll about on the couch where he was extended. After a time he would say: 'What is the use? I ask you what is the use of writing? When this fellow can write like this. There's no room for us.' He would go on groaning. Then he would, after a time, spring up, holding...