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Word: sofas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pose as her husband. Everything works smoothly until suspicion necessitates the two young people to occupy the same room overnight. The sophisticated musical comedy patron will not become too hopeful over such a situation. As is proper and fitting, the young prince spends an uncomfortable night on the sofa and the climax of the embarrassing situation is breakfast...

Author: By R. T. S., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 4/18/1929 | See Source »

...brunt of the work, doing a much more careful job as the gangster's moll than Ruth Chatterton, whose sobs as the mother bereft never equal the gusto of that master of the choked gurgle, Mr. Al Jolson (applause, a little scattered). When Mickey Bennett sits on the sofa with the little girl with the curls, and she attempts to pull his head down on her juvenile and probably bony breast, and he draws away, she says: "Don't you understand?" It's a talkie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...student looked upon his room as his home. He often stayed in the same place three or four years. He took an interest in making that room comfortable and attractive. He hung the walls with signs whose origin he was not always willing to reveal. He covered his sofa with cushions which he maintained were made by lovely girls of his acquaintance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coolidge Explains House Plan to Graduates in Speech In St. Louis---Emphasizes Social Benefits to be Derived | 2/21/1929 | See Source »

...husband's house-could not possibly be told so well without the sound device. For once, the voices, in spite of still imperfect reproduction, give life to the characterizations-H. B. Warner's Englishman, Ruth Chatterton's faithless wife. Best shot: Miss Chatterton on the sofa making up her mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Feb. 18, 1929 | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...fool Cinema Tsar Will H. Hays, who objected to The Green Hat. As a protector of public morals, Mr. Hays will no doubt shiver when the loose ring, symbol of Miss Merrick's character, slips gently from the tapering hand of Greta Garbo, flung sideways on a sofa which she does not occupy alone. Like Author Arlen and unlike Will H. Hays, Miss Garbo and John Gilbert are among the most conspicuous romanticists of this epoch. Each knows how to invest emotions with the glamor dear to reveries although not found in life. Director Clarence Brown has made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Feb. 4, 1929 | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

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