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Word: divan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Negroid cabaret in Harlem-of one sitting comfortably back in a downy, plushy divan. He seems so happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ambassadors | 4/27/1925 | See Source »

...column, carefully off-center, held up the roof. The rear wall consisted of a sheet of plate glass end-on to the room, an "S"-shaped strip of celluloid, all against a background of awning stripes. A little red balloon hung in front. A rug-covered box served as divan. Two cups and saucers lay on a stool-a home-like touch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: In Berlin | 11/17/1924 | See Source »

...HOWARD OF NEBRASKA (who afterwards voted in favor of the bill) : "To vote for this bill will be to give the recognition of legitimacy to a legislative bastard, conceived in the fertile brain of a professional profiteering patriot, and accouched on a damask divan in the gold room in the house of Morgan & Co., attended by a galaxy of accoucheurs appointed by Treasury Secretary Mellon and approved by the President of the United States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOLDIER BONUS: 40 Minutes | 3/31/1924 | See Source »

...annees out passe et m'ont fait home. Deja jai Coeur et monde, et me voice enfin divan I'll reeve. Mais jen'y trouve plus que tristesse et amour disenchantment...

Author: By M. P. B., | Title: O'BRIEN WRITES AGAIN OF SOUTH SEAS | 5/6/1921 | See Source »

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