Word: cushions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...antiquated piece of furniture with which I have had the most familiar acquaintance from my very earliest recollection. It is a sofa, in the correct acceptance of the term. It is not a "lounge." Its framework is of some dark wood, well begrimed with cigarette smoke and ashes. Its cushion is covered with velvet carpet of an ancient pattern, the figures of which, where not worn off entirely, seem to be made up of a conglomeration of enormous roses and tree trunks. To look at this aged sofa, you would say that it could not possibly be comfortable...
...quiet, unpretending existence in the old house, until a year or so ago it was thought best to send it to college to receive those finishing touches that a university course alone can bestow. So now I recline upon it with my back against a cushion, while I smoke a pipe and think of the many personal associations I have had with this old settler. If it had but a tongue as serviceable as its stout old legs, what a tale it could tell. To me, the first recollection that it brings is of my grandfather. How well I remember...
...they were the cream of the earth, but without anything to make them clergymen but a black coat and white tie. And the bishops and deans come with women tucked under their arm; and they can't enter church but a fine powdered man runs first with a cushion for them to sit on and a warm sheepskin to keep their feet from the stones...
Slosson beat Sexton in cushion carom billiards on Thursday by 17 points thus winning the championship...
Daly won the first prize in the cushion carrom tournament yesterday in New York...