Word: sofas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years old and his older sister came back from a trip to Italy and described Rome to the family. They were in the living room of their Bristol home. He was sitting on a footstool looking into his sister's face. She was sitting on a sofa with a ready-made album of various cities. She had liked Florence best because that was where her father came from, but one thing in Rome had excited her and her description of it inflamed the boy. That was the changing of the guard at the Vatican. And how he strained...
Once she campaigned for a women's rest room in the Senate Press Gallery and got it-complete with horsehair sofa. She helped organize the Mrs. Roosevelt's Press Conference Association and several months ago. when PM's Gordon Cole applied for admission, she was the only member to back him (she believes in equality for men, too). The press conference she jokingly resents is War Secretary Stimson's, because Mr. Stimson invariably looks through and beyond May Craig and says: "Good morning, gentlemen...
...Hope's double take may be a bit old by now, but it would take a dead man to keep from laughing when he ties the shoelace on a third foot which appears from under a sofa. As a foreign correspondent, Hope, who could easily receive the award for the world's worst newspaperman, has been in Europe, where he has managed to miss out on almost every important event, including the beginning of the Russian War. He dubs this a vicious rumor. His paper, the Amalgamated Press, recalls him and in a few brief words, Hope is ejected from...
...clock so she can be up at 6:30 for practice before school; diets on steak, spinach and milk to keep herself in shape. Her free-skating routines she maps out on paper and tries out at home in her stocking feet, taking her split jumps over a sofa...
Typical chrysalid hostess is short, black-haired Gloria Gooze, 20, refugee from movie ambitions. Said she last week, as she reclined on a green plush L.A.C.C. sofa: "I am interested in the Pan-American relations phase of this course...