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...boop-a-doop, age of jazz music, Betty had successfully weathered the Afro-manic, or hi-de-ho, period without once being referred to as corny. But to the orgiastic, or zazz-u-zazz, generation Betty's presence "has been like having grandma occupying one end of the sofa all evening. A wide-eyed, sportily clad lass with a dink perched on loosely brushed locks, Sally steps around in gillies and low socks, will jitter like any Benny Goodman votary in the twelve cartoons planned for her this season...
...least cautious move was his marriage to Emma Wedgwood. It took him only three years to decide on that plunge. On the one hand, debated Darwin, was the "terrible loss of time"; on the other "a nice soft wife on a sofa, with good fire and books and music perhaps. . . ." Handsome, untidy, cheerful, unsentimental Emma was not soft, but she was, for Darwin, more than nice. Their marriage was as blissful as the Brownings'. They both agreed that Tennyson's poetry was usually silly, detested the same people, chiefly the Carlyles...
They burst into the Chancellery at Vienna, found the still-stained yellow sofa upon which Chancellor Dollfuss slowly bled to death after Nazi assassins had pumped him full of lead (TIME, Aug. 6, 1934), draped it triumphantly last week with the Nazi swastika flag...
...adaptability of the automobile to familiar uses of the sofa, such as long talks, love-making and sleep, was a minor worry to furniture manufacturers long before 1929. A major worry was the fact that efficient mass production of automobiles gave buyers more for their money than they could get in walnut or fumed oak. In the 1920s automobiles displaced furniture as "Public Want No. 2" (No. 1-necessities of food and clothing) and contributed to the decline in furniture sales which began in 1927 after an all-time peak of $800,000,000 the preceding year. Other main cause...
Last Christmas both were reading Gulliver's Travels. One day Father Mauch, who was paying them a visit, fell asleep on a sofa. They found two spools of thread, wound it around him so that when he woke up he found himself in the same predicament as Gulliver in Lilliput. Mrs. Mauch extricated her husband with a pair of scissors...