Word: couches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Home from the hospital, Bryan Untiedt, 13, hero of the Towner, Colo., school-bus catastrophe (TIME, April 6 & 13), sat on the livingroom couch with his frost-bitten feet in a pan of hot water and watched his younger brothers and sisters play. All had been frost-nipped except Virgil, 11, who had not attended school that blizzardy day. "He wouldn't be so fresh if he'd been on the bus," Bryan remarked to a visiting newsgatherer...
...roomful of slightly improper drawings of ladies and gentlemen in fancy dress in which he combined the manners of Aubrey Beardsley, Botticelli, Benozzo Gozzoli and Florenz Ziegfeld. His pictures bore such titles as: La Chevalier (sic) de la Jarretière, Lady Woudnaught, Sir Adam Coudnaught, Odalisque, Lady Couch. Prince Henry and his cousin-countess showed views of France, Africa, Egypt and New York, painfully wrought...
...these rejoicing veins Are frosty channels to a muted stream, And out of all our burning there remains No feeblest spark to fire us, even in dream, This be our solace: that it was not said When we were young and warm and in our prime, Upon our couch we lay as lie the dead, Sleeping away the unreturning time. O Sweet, O heavy-lidded, O my love, When morning strikes her spear upon the land, And we must rise and arm us and reprove The insolent daylight with a steady hand, Be not discountenanced if the knowing know...
...small anteroom, papered in black, are a draped couch, and more oriental curios-among them an opium pipe, trophy of a police raid in Pittsburgh. Adjoining the anteroom is a spacious gold-walled lavatory, the plumbing fixtures of black porcelain. In a corner stands a lacquer red refrigerator with the motor disguised as a gold pagoda...
...forced to aid education. The Vagabond,peering into the dim future sees a new Harvard. It has become so thoroughly Oxfordized that the students have "scouts", and television has become the accepted means of education. He sees a room in Lowell House, a students figure reclining on a couch, a henchman hovering over an instrument in the corner, ready to do the master's slightest bidding. He hears a bored voice, "I say. Hawkins, turn off that beastly Hocking man and lets have something hot from Willie Langer...