Word: loveseats
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...room apartment on a St. Louis side street where the furnishings included an enormous bed of French Empire style, a William & Mary highboy, girandole mirrors, a sofa of beechwood, an upholstered rocker, and "a flock of odds and ends, worthless as antiques, but authentic relics of the ball-fringe, loveseat, blackwalnut, gilded-cattail era of curvature and upholstery. . . ." The strangest quality of Hallelujah is that without specific descriptions Fannie Hurst manages to make this superheated atmosphere quiver with a heavy, middle-aged eroticism. In the St. Louis, Mo. (pop. 816,000) that she describes, the commonplaces of existence - setting...
...slight provocation, and why he chooses a certain victim, often a complete stranger, at a given moment. He told of the case of the Manhattan upholsterer, John Fiorenza, who killed Mrs. Nancy Titterton in her Beekman Place apartment three years ago. Mrs. Titterton had called Fiorenza to repair a loveseat, had urged him to return it as quickly as possible. Fiorenza had a long-standing abnormal relationship to his mother which produced in his split personality powerful desires to commit cruel acts. His temporary possession of Mrs. Titterton's "loveseat" acted as a sufficiently strong stimulus for his disorganized...