Word: divan
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...Doxsee struck Cirrotta in the stomach. He took a step back and sat down on a divan," Tesreau said. "A couple of the guys began to tug at his sweater as if to rip it off him. He got up and apparently ordered the fellows to get out of his room...
There was Giovanni Boldini's wispy Duchess of Marlborough propped stiffly on her spindly divan; Whistler had caught bewhiskered Theodore Duret wistfully holding a lady's opera cape in some carpeted corridor. And William M. Chase had come upon the bemonocled Whistler sporting an absurd little cane and striking his dandy's pose. But most of the Edwardians represented at the museum (the Phelps Stokeses, the Wyndham sisters, Mme. Gautreau, Miss Ada Rehan, Henry Marquand) had sought out, or been sought out by, the slickest and most fashionable painter of their day to immortalize them -John Singer...
...books, the most distinctive feature of the Grolier Book Shoppe is its well-worn sofa. Apparently an ordinary piece of furniture, it has been warmed by the posteriors of the most erudite inmates of the ivy-covered squirrel-cage. This indeterminable-hued divan has sustained the weight of the wearer of the blackest, thickest-rimmed glasses among Cambridge cognoscenti. It has also supported innumerable bodies beneath as many heads holding rimless spectacles, prime among these being Cairnie himself. For sitting comfort, the Grolier ottoman is approached only by the bootblack stand at Felix's Shoe Shine Spa, and there...
...Soir, Paris Communist paper, was red with anger. In a luxurious villa at Pau in sight of the snow-bright Pyrenees, Sidi Mohamed Al Mounsaf was "lazily stretched out on a divan, his hands folded across his stomach." The "notorious collaborator"-exiled by the Allies for winking his pouchy eyes at the Axis (TIME, May 24, 1943)-enjoyed full liberty, was fawned upon by a score of wives, a large retinue including a court jester. To cap it all, he was campaigning for reinstatement as Bey of Tunis...
Goya's sketches and paintings of his aristocratic mistress became world-famed. He painted Teresa spread voluptuously on a divan, draped in white silk and gave the portrait to her husband. Then he painted her nude in the same posture, and kept it for himself.* Sometimes the Duchess graciously sent Goya's family tasty, palace-cooked tidbits on gold plates. Sensible Señora Goya used to eat the tidbits and keep the plates. When the Inquisition put a sleuth on the lovers' tracks, Goya caught the sleuth and calmly skinned the soles of his feet with...