Word: sofas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Buenos Aires the "sofa question" which disturbed official Washington some years ago reared its head last week...
...have joined hands in the Teletype business to compete against A. T. & T. (TIME, Nov. 30). Merrily he replied: "The Constitution forbids us to marry, but there is nothing to keep the Western Union and the Postal from Holding hands. Of course, when two persons sit on a haircloth sofa holding hands there is no telling how far they will go. ... But as for a merger, well there are such little things as the Sherman Act that stand in the way of that...
Seated beside the General on a sofa, Guest Kuh surveyed four rubber plants in pots, four cuspidors, a large German clock, sumptuous Persian rugs, rich curtains, and a table on which tea was sumptuously laid in a silver service, complete with biscuits, fruit, cakes and a bucket of cracked ice surrounding French champagne...
...reels have elapsed the fiance gets himself jailed for badgering a cop and the young person finds herself in the tenor's rooms for the night. So childlike and pure is she that he puts her to bed with a huge teddy bear and goes to sleep on the sofa. He surprises her and probably himself the next morning by proposing marriage. Since she has fallen drip-pingly in love with him the only obstacle to be disposed of is the fiance who arrives hotfoot from jail. They send him out to wait in a taxi and forget all about...
...Manhattan freed themselves from mundane cares, piously to pass the Jewish time of self-examination. God was balancing His books, which would be closed on the Day of Atonement. But in the teeming lower East Side one family sat in sorrow. They slit their garments. No chair or sofa would they sit on: only rough boxes. They were "sitting shivah"-mourning a dead daughter...