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...Buenos Aires the "sofa question" which disturbed official Washington some years ago reared its head last week...
...Washington sofas were removed from the private offices of young and virile U. S. Representatives, but permitted to remain in the private offices of U. S. Senators, men of greater age and discretion. Last week in Buenos Aires the sofa question was put squarely up to Mayor Romulo Naon. Promptly he removed from his City Hall not only all sofas but all easy chairs. "They constituted too great a temptation, as I now realize," said Mayor Naon, "to indolent employes...
...have joined hands in the Teletype business to compete against A. T. & T. (TIME, Nov. 30). Merrily he replied: "The Constitution forbids us to marry, but there is nothing to keep the Western Union and the Postal from Holding hands. Of course, when two persons sit on a haircloth sofa holding hands there is no telling how far they will go. ... But as for a merger, well there are such little things as the Sherman Act that stand in the way of that...
Seated beside the General on a sofa, Guest Kuh surveyed four rubber plants in pots, four cuspidors, a large German clock, sumptuous Persian rugs, rich curtains, and a table on which tea was sumptuously laid in a silver service, complete with biscuits, fruit, cakes and a bucket of cracked ice surrounding French champagne...
...reels have elapsed the fiance gets himself jailed for badgering a cop and the young person finds herself in the tenor's rooms for the night. So childlike and pure is she that he puts her to bed with a huge teddy bear and goes to sleep on the sofa. He surprises her and probably himself the next morning by proposing marriage. Since she has fallen drip-pingly in love with him the only obstacle to be disposed of is the fiance who arrives hotfoot from jail. They send him out to wait in a taxi and forget all about...