Word: couches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Roosevelt allowed to con tinue on the board are all big businessmen. West by Southwest. Wilson McCarthy is one, a smart Salt Lake City lawyer whose pony-express riding father left him a cattle fortune. Another is that husky lover of detective stories, rich Public Utilitarian Harvey Crowley Couch of Pine Bluff, Ark. And from the most spacious State of all is the man who dominates RFC's policies, has dominated them since the agency's re birth-Chairman Jesse Holman Jones, a Texan now become a titan. When Jesse Jones is out of Washington...
...towels and his own vest to burst into flames. Police testimony had shown that the main fire was started neither in the washroom nor the restaurant but in the Reichstag assembly hall. There Marinus van der Lubbe, according to his confession, ignited the bulletin board and a feather-stuffed couch...
Winner of the hog-calling championship at an Arkansas county fair was Harvey Crowley Couch, R. F. C. board member. Asked how he won the medal, he said: "The 'sooey' system. I used to 'sooey' home the hogs on my father's farm when I was a boy. There's a knack to the 'sooey' of course, and the 'cooey' and these newfangled calls can't approach it, once you've got it down...
Away up in his green copper crusted tower in Memorial Hall the Vagabond stirred uneasily on his crumby couch and dug his knuckles into smarting eyes to shut out the light. He yawned painfully, stretched his cramped limbs, and turned over...
Because he was so imprudent as to fill his slack old stomach with a few dates soaked in water, St. Gandhi lay on a couch last week speechless from stomach ache at the wedding of his plump son Devadas to Miss Luxmi Raja Gopal Achariar, daughter of a Nationalist Congress leader...