Word: sofas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soft breeze blew in from the Charles, itself as yet frozen over, with dirty gray ice, and he stretched himself slowly, thoroughly, like a cat that has just woken up. A slow smile of perfect bliss came over his face, and of a sudden he collapsed, purring, onto the sofa...
Perched on the edge of a sofa, Dr. Davenport told of her childhood as the daughter of a Russian prince, her study of dietetics at Heidelberg at the age of 81, her invalid husband (age, 67), and her eleven sons (ages, 73 to 93) who, she thinks, are now in Russia. Said she: "I want to go on another lecture tour. But I need a business manager. They had better not let me handle money because I give it away. I don't want it as long as I have my cigarets...
...Dill are soon up to their old tricks, insulting the proprietors of roadside restaurants, wrecking Rolls-Royce roadsters and imposing on their friends. When they spend a night together, Dill further establishes his character as a sophisticate by catching cold, getting burned and sleeping alone on a downstairs sofa. His bride divorces him and he is on the point of settling down with Mary after all, when she discovers she is wrong again. Jeff Williams is the man she loves. They go off to Spain together, leaving Dill puzzled on the pier...
...somehow responsible. This knowledge merely makes the situation more puzzling than ever. Her only ally is a cockney confectioner's boy in whose cellar she hides after she has gone to Hilliard's apartment one evening and seen her mother's coat thrown down across a sofa. It is the confectioner's boy who saves her life when, at the end of the picture, after being forced to testify against her mother in a divorce court, she has gone home and turned on the gas-logs in her nursery...
...prices and Housekeeper Catherine Viles wept salty tears of sadness, bidders and gapers were able to glean from the house's elaborate furnishings how pious Lumberman Long liked to spend his days. At the foot of a marble and bronze stairway was a red plush and Gobelin tapestry sofa (sold to Harry Jacobs for $410) on which Mr. Long and the late Ella Wilson Long used to sit only at Christmas when they gave presents to the servants. In the French salon beneath an enormous pear-shaped crystal chandelier (sold to Dr. Abraham Sophian for $470), was a walnut...