Word: divan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before dawn, two men entered the home of Sheriff Carl Emison at Alamo and demanded the prisoner. Sheriff Emison hid the jail keys under a divan, tried to outtalk his visitors. A few minutes later the angry Mob arrived. Before they battered down his door, he opened it. They found his keys...
...abdicated Crown Prince Carol of Rumania was sitting quietly on a divan at his Paris home one morning last week. Beside him sat a red-haired Rumanian Jewess, Mme. Magda Lupescu. A prying world knows that they reside together and that she is enceinte (TIME, Dec. 13). A sea coal fire glowed upon the hearth and Carol read aloud, in thoughtful domesticity, from the morning newspaper...
...bits, aient it Meesis Feetlebaum?." Which is rather true, for the price of verse is rapidly descending, in fact too much so. If one really wants to make money he should take divisionals and then write his Prisoner's Song and collect the price of two Morris chairs, one divan and golf course--enough for any man, more than enough...
GLASS HOUSES?Eleanor Gizycka?Minion, Balch ($2). Senators have fun. Particularly the big he-ones from unshackled western states. This book leaves no doubt of it. They are pursued even in their grave assembly room by panting Washington women with devastating toilets and merciless divan technique. Second only to senators in desirability are titled young attaches at the embassies. For one of these a Washington flapper will do unvirtuously anything...
...shot went through the peacemaker's throat. He fell dying to the floor. Leahy started again to kick Magee who was still down, and Magee fired twice more hitting Leahy in the arm. Then Leahy walked out of the hotel and Magee fell sobbing over a divan...