Word: couches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then follows a most congenial scene in Miss Lawrence's Paris apartment, with brandy-drinking, song-singing ("Some Day I'll Find You," by Mr. Coward) and great fun on a couch. Says Mr, Coward...
...sedans with a "Pullman attachment" as standard equipment. Owners of these new Durants will not have to get out of their cars when they wish to stretch themselves out full length. At the press of a little lever, the back of the front seat gives way, a "reclining couch" comes into being. Durant advertisements pointed out the many uses of this "roadside resting or sleeping room." It "makes traveling with children delightful," enables businessmen to "keep going as long and as far as they like," furnishes "a hotel wherever you are." "AN INTERIOR ATTRACTION THAT BEATS THE RADIO...
...Author. Lorna Rea (Mrs. Philip Russel Rea) wrote "passionately romantic" short stories as a child. At Cambridge, England, she studied under "Q" (Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch); the War sidetracked her to medicine; marriage sidetracked that. When her husband was ordered to Switzerland for his health, she took her two children along, decided to start writing again. Her first book was Six Mrs. Greenes...
...assure his re-election in November. Well did each divorcee recall Judge Bartlett's warm friendly chambers on the second floor of the ornate courthouse where her decree had been granted-the pictures of the judge's family and dogs, the worn leather chairs, the old leather couch on which she, as a wife, sat and told her troubles to the judge behind his disordered desk. At that same desk sat Judge Bartlett last week reading stacks of congratulatory telegrams from women he had separated from husbands...
Astronomer Lowell's calculation of the planet's existence was gloriously praiseworthy for human mentality. But it was not unique. Neptune was discovered Sept. 23, 1846, in precisely the same manner? by figuring from the orbital variation of Uranus. Wholly independent of each other John Couch Adams, young Englishman, and Urbain Jean Joseph Leverrier, young Frenchman, did the mathematical work...