Word: divan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Times, Herald, and World in New York from 1914 to 1928, Woolicott has since puttered his way to a fortune as a writer and radio star. Pudgy, preferring physical inertness, be once acted on Broadway in a play that required little effort beyond keeping from rolling off a divan. Yet, in the Great War, he became a sergeant in a hospital unit...
...animal die," growled a Nazi. Others roughly picked up bleeding Dollfuss, dumped him on a divan...
...chief glory during the Great War, steamed the Oriental brothers. The big, splendiferous windup of the King of Kings' junket was at Istanbul where the great Dolma Bagtche Palace of bygone Turkish Sultans was thrown open for a great ball to honor His Majesty. Reclining on a divan the King of Kings ate Turkish delight off a onetime Sultan's silver salver and puffed cigarets made for the occasion by the Turkish Tobacco Monopoly which had stamped on each the Persian Royal Arms. Meanwhile spry Turks in the sleek-tailed, Frenchified dress suits affected by President Kemal...
Some minutes later Sheriff Lillian, reclining on her divan in her home, got the news by telephone. All but hysterical she called police headquarters at nearby Gary: ''Rush all the police and guns you can get here-Dillinger's loose!" It took more than an hour to find keys to release the imprisoned jailers. Toward noon Deputy Blunk called by long distance to say that the jailbreakers had released him and the garageman near Peotone, Ill., about 25 miles away, giving them $4 for carfare and a cigaret each...
...Manhattan home is on Beekman Place, overlooking the East River. Welfare Island and the belching factories of Brooklyn. In it is a brocade divan from Mrs. Partridge Presents, a chair from The Dover Road, a table from The Green Hat, a portrait from The Age of Innocence. They also have a home at Sneden's Landing, a small colony tucked under the Hudson palisades some 20 mi. from Manhattan. In the course of a wedding celebrated there last year by her landlady's son. Miss Cornell and "Flush," the water spaniel who was in The Barretts, were pitched into...