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...which folds into the wall giving ample room for vertical dressing. The bed is 6 ft., 5 in. long, four inches more than the present standard berth. The roomette also has built-in toilet and closet, individual heating and ventilation. During the day the folded bed makes a sofa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Roomette | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

...this point Franklin Roosevelt, who had been sitting in his chair beaming upon press and Canada, quietly put in a word. Of course, he said, there could be no official talk, but if he and the Governor-General sat on a White House sofa, there was nothing in any constitution which could stop them from soliloquizing on international affairs. And neither of them was deaf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sofa Soliloquies | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

...looked through the window and there was Pauline on the sofa with another man -a young fellow he was; looked much younger than she. . . . Pauline had on blue lounging pajamas. I bought them for her, dammit! "I rapped on the door and ordered her to open. Nobody came, so I took my key and went in. Pauline screamed and dashed out the back way. I yelled after her that I only wanted to talk to her, but she kept going. Lights came on in most of the houses and neighbors began pouring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Mr. X & Mr. Y | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

...highest prizes in the show-the $700 Altman Prize for a figure painting by an American-born citizen, which went to Charles Stafford Duncan for Girl in Black, a study of a sombre, thin-faced young woman with a curiously rigid left hand, seated on a sofa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Academy's 112th | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

...oath bill interferes with abuse of freedom, not freedom itself. It's an honor to be asked to defend the Constitution. Why, notaries are charged five dollars for their oaths. If I charged the teachers that, they'd be after me with machine guns!" Dorgan relaxed against the sofa and laughed heartily...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dorgan, on Oath Bill Doomsday, Feels That His Brain-Child Honors Teachers | 3/17/1937 | See Source »

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