Word: sofas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only those with the best references-and the most money. Minor house repairs are another lucrative source of private income: a Literaturnaya Gazeta reporter estimated that from one-third to one-half of all consumer expenditures for such services goes into private pockets. In Stalingrad he found that a sofa bought for 600 rubles costs 416 rubles more to be put into good shape...
...smell of tobacco emanates from the sofa cushions. Who is responsible--the butler, Susanne herself, or an unknown lover who sneaks in when the master of the house slinks out? Far be it from me to tell; I'll say only that Wolf-Ferrari here did for cigarette-smoking in 1909 what Bach had done for coffee-drinking in 1732 with his comic operetta, the Kaffeekantate...
...ivory-colored telephone that is hooked into a single-sideband radio, enabling Ike to talk to any spot in the world. For classified conversations, his radio operator uses a radio-teletype which scrambles messages that can only be unscrambled at a single receiving point. Also aboard: reclining chairs, sofa beds, tape player, hifi, two galleys, two astrodomes...
According to fireman John Lally, the conflagration was caused by a cigar butt left on the sofa. David N. Owen '61, a neighbor of the damaged suite, said he had smelled smoke for half an hour before turning in the alarm, but his roommates convinced him "it was only stale pretzels." Occupants of the I-43 suite were absent at the time...
...Director Tati and his man Hulot take this cheery homestead and turn it into a mechanized madhouse. Hulot, after discovering a rubber-based pitcher that bounces, tried to bounce a glass, only to find that brother-in-law's technicians haven't modernized that item yet. When a modern sofa proves impossible for Hulot to sleep in, he discovers that turned on it side it fits the contours of his body perfectly...