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...Brother Crawford and Lightnin'). Testified Mme Queen: ''The second time Andy was in there, he said to me, he said: 'Sweetheart, this is one of the best manicures I ever had.' . . . One night we had a date, and we was sittin' on the sofa, and he sez to me: 'Kiss me, honey,' and I say: 'You go 'way from here 'cause I ain't gonna kiss no man.' ... He got down on one knee and begged me to marry him. That's exactly what he done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 9, 1931 | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

They found him last week in a bad district of Cleveland, sprawling on an apartment-house sofa, his skull bashed in and a bullet in his head. He was dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: From the Statesman's Window | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

...without sin among you heave the first sofa...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BROWN, BOYS, AND BOTTLES | 10/30/1930 | See Source »

...White House household; 2) the $5,000 the Tafts had saved on entering the White House and the $80,000 they had after two years; 3) "Little Charlie [the President's son] is a great bookworm and spends most of his time curled up on a sofa reading. . . . On inauguration day he took to the Senate Treasure Island - to read, he said, in case his father's address bored him"; 4) "Helen Taft [Mrs. Frederick J. Manning, dean of Bryn Mawr] is a nice girl and very intelligent without being a prude"; 5) "When the music began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Dear Clara | 9/15/1930 | See Source »

...pose as her husband. Everything works smoothly until suspicion necessitates the two young people to occupy the same room overnight. The sophisticated musical comedy patron will not become too hopeful over such a situation. As is proper and fitting, the young prince spends an uncomfortable night on the sofa and the climax of the embarrassing situation is breakfast...

Author: By R. T. S., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 4/18/1929 | See Source »

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