Word: couching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twelve miles southeast of Hot Springs, Ark. on the Ouachita River is a power dam. Behind the dam is a good-sized lake. In the lake is an island and on the island is Couchwood, summer home of Harvey Crowley Couch. Mr. Couch built not only the rambling redwood log cabin that accommodates 25 guests in every luxury but also the dam that made the lake. The lake he named after his daughter Catherine; the dam, which he built for his Arkansas Light & Power Co., he named after onetime State Republican Boss Remmel...
Last week Mr. Couch gave a house party at Couchwood. George B. Shaw and W. Alton Jones of Cities Service dropped from the skies in a great glistening white monoplane. Governor Futrell of Arkansas and a few ranking members of the State's judiciary were already on hand. From St. Louis went a delegation headed by Tom K. Smith of Boatmen's National Bank who lately resigned as an assistant to Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau. Higher education was represented by President Bruce Payne of Peabody College in Nashville, Tenn. and President Pat Neff of Baylor University, Waco...
Many another potent Couch friend attended the stag house party but the Press was conspicuously absent. A guard on the bridge from the shore to the island kept the unwanted away. Burning with curiosity, newshawks tried long-distance calls without success. Nor would the great guests be interviewed as they arrived or departed. Their host kept insisting...
...three days the great guests lolled about on the Couchwood steps or lazed in deep armchairs, discussing they alone knew what. Some went riding in Couch motorboats on the Couch lake. One day the host took Messrs. Young and Dawes fishing but their catch was negligible. A few went along to hear Mr. Young make a speech at a nearby college. Mr. Dawes praised the Anglo-Saxon race at a nearby high school. That, as far as the public was concerned, was all that happened at Couchwood and that satisfied the curiosity of few outsiders...
...Press suggested that the husky, thick-set host needed money to finish a hydro-electric project, that a mysterious Southwest power deal was afoot, that the utility men were trying to draft Mr. Couch for active command of the Edison Electric Institute during dark political months ahead. It was even hinted that the whole thing smacked of an unholy alliance of Power, Politics, Education and the Courts...