Word: sofas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night. In his social life, as at work, he is a bristling individualist. He has outraged Jacksonville hostesses by taking his own brand of Scotch to cocktail parties, refusing to attend dinners unless the menu suited him. A hater of games, he goes to sleep on any handy sofa if someone suggests a round of bridge...
Never again will Professor Murdock, ex-Master of Leverett House and "Ken" to the Rabbits, come charging through the Bunny-hutch Common Room, arms swinging fantastically up and down as if he were clutching at the smoke in the air, and throw his entire length upon the deep sofa for half an hour's relaxation after dinner...
...Frank Porter Graham, University of North Carolina president, interrupted by the telephone in the midst of conference with fellow Member Walter Clark Teagle of Standard Oil, blinked at Mr. Teagle with heavy, black-circled eyes as he hung up the receiver. Mr. Teagle was sound asleep on a sofa...
...story obliges the handsomely dressed Fonda to sprawl headlong twice over Miss Stanwyck's legs, tumble across a sofa and land with his face in a plate of hors d'oeuvres, take a drenching of hot coffee, receive a mess of roast beef and gravy in his lap, endure numerous other accidents. They are all funny. More importantly, Stanwyck and Fonda play throughout with a comic agility matching Sturges' frothy script...
...sent to China last month on a mission like Harry Hopkins' to England. In Washington little-known Lauchlin Currie was known as the man who had never been in an airplane, as inflexibly unenthusiastic, and as the man who dictated his abstruse economic drafts while lying on a sofa preferably with his eyes closed. After making a stupendous first flight-across the U. S., across the Pacific, across China to Chungking-Lauchlin Currie gave his first word of his findings. He talked of U. S. responsibility for aiding China, made a crack about the number of Chinese banquets...