Word: sofas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...selling a-copy-a-minute over sheet music counters, might well go on to the fabulous two million high of Yes, We Have No Bananas (1923). The three U. S. phonograph companies (Victor. Decca, Brunswick-Columbia) were distributing the tune under their dozen-odd labels. A tie, a sofa, a cigaret holder were named after the piece. At the St. Paul Hotel in St. Paul, Minn., Bandmaster Bernie Cummins reported he had received more requests for it than for any other number. So did Bandmaster Ozzie Nelson at Manhattan's Lexington Hotel. Both NBC and Columbia broadcasting chains...
...Where the hell's the scotch, you moll!" he said, seizing the Radcliffe girl by the hair and dragging her from the sofa, upsetting three or four cozy couples in so doing...
Elvira and, Tiberio, his prize-winning canvas (see cut) shows an embarrassed but happy pair of young South American Negroes, all dressed up in their Sunday best and perched primly on the edge of an emerald green sofa. Elvira has a gay wreath of pink poppies around her Dolly Vardon hat. Tiberio's immaculate white linen suit is set off by a magnificent striped shirt...
Vasya's wife Ludmilla (Beatrice De Neergaard) is a plump, "undeveloped" peasant who cannot join the Party because she insists on retaining such "bourgeois knickknacks" as a canary, sofa pillows, curtains, rubber plants. She also has "medieval notions" about making men comfortable. Abram's wife Tonya (Fraye Gilbert), on the other hand, catechizes her husband on "ideology," hounds him with a book when he is hungry. The couples inevitably end by quarreling with their mates, longing for a rearrangement. When the poet learns what has happened to his collective paradise, he mutters bitterly, "Sabotage!" The rearrangement is effected...
...drowsy member of the 74th Congress had on Jan. 3 lain down to nap on a cloakroom sofa, and if by some miracle he had slept until last week, he would, on awaking, have had no reason to believe that he had taken more than three winks...