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Word: sofas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cane chairs and a sofa in the bright-colored little sunroom, where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: On the Hunt | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Interviewed on her 75th birthday as she sat on a sofa draped with a tiger skin in her pink-walled London apartment, Elinor ("It") Glyn, British novelist who writes nowadays only when she has "passionate thoughts that will help humanity," explained: "I have an immense passion for tigers. When I go to a zoo I have a most peculiar effect on them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 30, 1939 | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Sorer than the Senators were the Washington correspondents. They did not like the picture's first shot of a Washington correspondent lying tight and tousled on a sofa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mr. Smith Riles Washington | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...September 3 last, Ambassador Kennedy ordered his No. 2 Personal Secretary James Seymour to form a small staff for regular night duty. Seymour bought a collapsible cot (by day it is folded up behind the Ambassador's black sofa) and took the first "lobster trick." He had no nap that night or since. By 3 a. m. he phoned Ambassador Kennedy at his country house that the Athenia was sinking, torpedoed by a German submarine, with 1,418 people aboard, some 300 of them Americans (TIME, Sept. 11. Kennedy cabled to Franklin Roosevelt: "All on Athenia rescued except those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN SERVICE: London Legman | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...showy star parts. She complains that as the heroine of the vastly overrated The Barretts of Wimpole Street she did nothing but "feed" the rest of the cast-but as Elizabeth Barrett, in one of the longest parts ever written for the stage, she reclined on the most spotlighted sofa in theatrical history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Great Katharine | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

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