Word: sofas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advertisements of 1883 are reprinted: a rococo display of Colgate & Co., one for "The Only Genuine Vichy" (both advertisers today), Ausable's "Popular Horse Nail." and a "Combined Sofa & Bath Tub. The Common Sense Invention...
...Davis (Jean Adair) on her daughter Cora (Katherine Alexander) that Fred Barton (Harvey Stephens) has to do his courting under her watchful eye. When Cora starts for a dance with him Mrs. Davis collapses in the footlights. During the entire third act Mrs. Davis lies unconscious on a sofa in full view of the audience while other members of the household leave Cora to care for her. When the curtain goes down Mrs. Davis is dead. Playwright Raymond Van Sickle evidently felt very strongly that mothers are the curse of small-town life. Manhattan playgoers, for most of whom...
...detective foraging in a linen closet for his bottle of gin ... chorus girls in a hotel lobby to meet a friend's friend ... the elderly lady who sits alone in speakeasies, puffing a long cigaret holder ... a paper bag in the arm of a bootlegger, asleep on a sofa waiting to be paid . . . paraphernalia for a party, scattered across the top of a hotelroom table. . . . Shots like these, because they have the authentic flavor of one type of night-life in Manhattan, are what make Big City Blues an interesting picture...
...nights, he related, word of his presence reached the ears of Tsar Boris at the summer palace at Varna nearby. Tsar Boris, whose best fun is driving a locomotive, sent a carriage and plumed horses for Engineer Phillips. Recounted Mr. Phillips: "[at the palace] he motioned me to a sofa and we sat down. . . . He told me that one problem that was bothering him was whether he ought to put automatic stokers on his engines. ... I told him that, from my experience, it would be better to go on doing the work by hand until he got larger engines...
...Washington sofas were removed from the private offices of young and virile U. S. Representatives, but permitted to remain in the private offices of U. S. Senators, men of greater age and discretion. Last week in Buenos Aires the sofa question was put squarely up to Mayor Romulo Naon. Promptly he removed from his City Hall not only all sofas but all easy chairs. "They constituted too great a temptation, as I now realize," said Mayor Naon, "to indolent employes...