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Word: sofas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...giant swipes, he strode. He lived and worked in the last car, the Pioneer, the mahogany-paneled private car in which Franklin Roosevelt once traveled. Just ahead of the rear platform was a glass-walled observation lounge, the candidate's living room, heavily carpeted, with a deep sofa, four club chairs-all chintz-covered-lamps, a radio, smoking stands. Beyond it were bedrooms for the candidate and his slight, pleasant wife; one for huge, lumbering Brother Ed; a section fitted as a dining room; a kitchen; compartment for maids, secretaries, aides and two New York City detectives, Stephen Buckley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Story of a Train | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

...annihilation is the best thing that could have happened to the debased human race. He has a high old time making his death ray catch in compromising positions all kinds of people who have irked Poet Noyes for years. There is moralizing Critic Sir Herbert Boskin & wife. On a sofa Lady Boskin "was in the arms of a dead man with a long, pale nose, and a red mustache, which gave a touch of macabre comedy to their attitude. . . ." Sir Herbert was in another room, "as dead," observes Poet Noyes gleefully, "as Napoleon. ... On a table beside him there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Apocalypse, Pugnacity | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

...served in the War, Navy and National Defense Ministries, and for leading the suppression of the bandit Cedillo two years ago was given the highest possible Army rank, divisional general. Stout, with piano legs and sofa shoulders, of medium height, he was shy until his certainty that he would win the campaign made him brash. His extracurricular passion is polo. His string of ponies has traveled all the way to Long Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: An Age of Trickery | 7/15/1940 | See Source »

...Malcolm produced a pert blonde housemaid named Joy Higginson to swear she once abruptly entered the ballroom of his house to see Lady Campbell and a Mr. Bruce Keith "embracing as lovers" on a sofa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Affair of Honor | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

...latest furniture is typical. To be completely up-to-date, the modernists turned a model living room on its side and fastened it to the wall, but its furniture-rug, table, overstuffed sofa, padded armchair, etc.-looked comfortable even from that angle. And there was not a single piece of steel tubing in the room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Versus | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

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