Word: sofas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night two of them, William Stewart and Matthew Nelson, forgot themselves and went out on the town. At 10 o'clock Stewart dragged Nelson home drunk. The others' faces went grim; they reached for their pistols. They sat Nelson up on a sofa, beat his head with butt and barrel. Stewart, sick at his stomach with fear, slipped to the bathroom, jumped out the window, ran away...
...gang quickly cleared out of that apartment. Behind, as evidence of what had happened to Nelson, they left a blood-soaked pillowcase, two blood-soaked, handkerchiefs, stains on sofa and floor. After that, nerves were nearly as raw as Nelson's tortured head and face. The gang split up, took two new apartments. They never saw Stewart again. Somehow Nelson got away, too, and fled to Minneapolis. And somehow the Federal Bureau of Investigation got the clue it needed...
...three years. . . . The game occasionally took a tragic turn. Rear Admiral William B. Fletcher, long a regular player, lost eight capital ships one night and was so humiliated that he never returned. Another friend, after being court-martialed one evening for losing an entire army, lay on a sofa and cried...
Great Republicans. But Washington had "a society of the highest order"-the great republicans Harriet had come so far to see. She saw everybody. Congressmen "reposed themselves" by Harriet's fireside. "Mr. Clay, sitting upright on the sofa, with his snuffbox ever in his hand, would discourse for many an hour in his even, soft, deliberate tone. . . . Mr. Webster, leaning back at his ease, telling stories, cracking jokes, shaking the sofa with burst after burst of laughter . . . would illuminate an evening. Mr. Calhoun, the cast-iron man, who looks as if he had never been born and never could...
Kiddies of Caracas used to listen on the radio with bated breath to "Tío Timoteo" (Uncle Tim), wondering how he knew that little Juan Bimba's birthday present was under the sofa and that Babita was not eating enough cereal. He knew, of course, because fond parents wrote in and asked...