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Word: sofas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scholarships, working on the N. Y. A., and a few here and there are the so-called blue-bloods whom she never gets to meet. (I mean the blue-bloods.) She also realizes that living in Cambridge is very convenient especially if there is a comfortable sofa in the living room, and the family is out for the evening when daughter is "having company." She learns "lines" quickly, and finds that the old adage "early to bed and early to rise" makes a girl healthy, happy, and safe, is true. Nine times out of ten that is the case...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 3/25/1939 | See Source »

...injured fireman is Joseph C. Bedard, '40, who, witnesses said, was struck by debris and parts of the sofa hurled out of the window by his mates. He was rushed to the Cambridge city hospital in a police ambulance and found to have received severe back contusions. He was given treatment and held by the hospital for further observation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXCLUSIVE STUDENTS' ROOMING HOUSE SAVED BY FIRE DEPARTMENT | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...Virginia Military Institute is excellent, and Wayne Morris and Priscilla Lane get into trouble convincingly. And there are plenty of troubles. There is a wife to be concealed, scholastic difficulties to be overcome, and after hours escapades to be covered up. The now famous military conquest of girl-on-sofa is carried out with tremendous enthusiasm by the forces concerned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

...covers, flails his arms wildly, skids on the rug, reverses his field beautifully, and slams the door behind him gratefully. Outside, he quiets his throbbing pulse and takes careful inventory. Unscathed. The little devil never laid a stinger on him. He finished his sleep uncomfortably on the sofa...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 6/1/1938 | See Source »

...least cautious move was his marriage to Emma Wedgwood. It took him only three years to decide on that plunge. On the one hand, debated Darwin, was the "terrible loss of time"; on the other "a nice soft wife on a sofa, with good fire and books and music perhaps. . . ." Handsome, untidy, cheerful, unsentimental Emma was not soft, but she was, for Darwin, more than nice. Their marriage was as blissful as the Brownings'. They both agreed that Tennyson's poetry was usually silly, detested the same people, chiefly the Carlyles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Timid Giant | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

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