Word: sofas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year was less than five minutes old as the Vagabond, or someone, at least who might well have been mistaken for him, was reclining in a comfortable sofa at a country club. Next to him sat a beautiful creature of, shall we say, the gentler sex. Perhaps the opposite sex would more accurately convey our meaning, for the Vagabond is essentially a virile specimen...
...good friends have called our attention to TIME of Nov. 28, "On Trains, and made the suggestion that we should add to your paragraph that the "North Coast Limited," Chicago-Seattle flyer, on the Northern Pacific, had a women's lounge and smoking compartment with long sofa and dressing tables, bath, manicure, maid, etc., added to its new equipment in March...
...Story: A fortnight ago the Pennsylvania Railroad added to the women's lounge on car Gwladys (Porter J. L. Francis in charge; New York to Philadelphia) a green and beige smoking room with five light green velvet-upholstered wicker chairs & a light green velvet-upholstered wicker three-seated sofa. Other equipment included: mirrors, cuspidors, dressing table^ ashtrays. These facts were well broadcast by the U. S. press. Actually a smoking lounge for women is no innovation. The Chief (Santa Fé) carries a smoking lounge for women on its observation car. The Lehigh Valley R. R. is installing...
...Significance. Of the many moods subtly fused into this book, the predominant mood is one of satire. Too wise to bear any rancor, too polite to make her rudeness obvious, Author Warner ever so softly annihilates Christian idiocies. Her weapons are neither rapiers nor bludgeons. They are satin sofa-pillows which she tosses laughingly but with accuracy. Breaking when they land, her missiles leave the recipient white and ridiculous with feathers. In prose as easygoing, as smooth and level as a buzzard's flight, she matches her astute intelligence with a fancy as varied as it is engaging...
...African Gander," by Simeon Pickering, depicts rather startlingly, for the first time, a well-known young woman reclining on a sofa with no clothes on at all. A sad gander meditates her buxom figure while the young married woman herself contemplates a bowl of "peaches...