Word: divan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Manhattan newsmen, confronting the two flyers in "mass interview" in a suite at the swanky Ritz Carlton, experienced somewhat the same difficulty in thinking up questions to which they did not already know the answers. Pilot Post, still deaf from the roar of the motor, sprawled on a divan and let Gatty do the answering. What percentage of time was spent in the air? Gatty did not know. A newsman told him it was about 52%. Did they drink anything to keep awake on the flight? No. Post touches neither coffee nor tobacco. Doesn't he drink Choctaw beer...
...when she must speak rapidly, impersonates the wife of a British plenipotentiary to Peru. He is more anxious to get an appointment to Rome than to retain his wife's love. She is immensely attracted to her husband's young attache, who remarks, while sprawling on a divan: "At times I am completely at the mercy of my passions." But when she offers to flee with him to some bourne of quiet, she learns again that worldly ambition can conquer desire. Then she accepts the proposition of the urbane Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs who. presumably...