Word: sofas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dull, all as needle-toothed and portentous as so many black cats. Among them they put together the tortuous, semiautobiographical figure of Margaret Sargent, a youngwoman-about-Manhattan, from the callow moment in which she breaks her first marriage to the hour when, twisting on a psychoanalyst's sofa like an unable phoenix in hot ashes, she discovers in her childhood the source of her emptiness...
Bertie Wooster, pensive on a leather sofa, brooded alternately about his aunt's unreasonableness and the subject all the chaps had been champing at dinner-Old Plum's incredible antics in Berlin...
...Gestapo headquarters in Berlin, Hangman Heydrich has a spacious, bare-walled office with a big desk for himself, comfortable chairs, a sofa and cigarets for visitors. Foreign diplomats who used to visit him there, to plead or protest for fellow nationals, found him polite, attentive, even affable. But they noticed one thing about him-he never smiled...
Last week, the uniformed monarch received New York Timesman Cyrus Sulzberger, sat him down on a little sofa, graciously accepted one of Timesman Sulzberger's Iranian cigarets (though he usually smokes American brands only), and spoke the mind that was not his with perceptible overtones of irony...
...President talked to Russian Ambassador Maxim Litvinoff, arrived just before the attack. Then he relaxed on his office sofa, slept soundly for an hour. When he arose he checked reports again (still piled with bad news), announced that he would speak to the nation the next night, and began dictating his speech...