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...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...
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...
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...