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With 'er feet up on the sofa and 'er 'ands...
Sophisticates of smart Berlin and worldly Hamburg have witnessed and applauded, during the past month, a modernist farce in which an actor programmed as God waddles upon the stage in plus fours, shakes cocktails for his cackling crony St. Peter, and holds hands upon a sofa with Mary Magdalene...
...Governor of New York, alert at Albany, spent three successive evenings beside his radio. It was a long time to wait for one announcement but he bore up cheerfully. The long sittings made historic a small, thickly upholstered sofa and a ponderous, brindled Great Dane named Jefferson, whom the Governor addressed now and then to ease his mind. Mrs. Emily Smith Warner (eldest daughter) and her husband were there, too. Also Walter Smith (youngest son), Mrs. Belle Moskowitz (chief publicist) and her husband; also secretaries, friends, newsgatherers. The Governor chewed long cigars, drank water frequently. His face was redder than...
...almost his most prolific year, the late John Singer Sargent completed 31 portraits and 18 other pictures. One of the former was a Portrait of Mrs. Arthur Knowles and Children, a gayly sentimental painting showing the pretty Mrs. Knowles lounging on a sofa, embracing two affectionate little boys who nuzzled against her. Less cool than most of Sargent's glimpses at maternity, charming because of its humanity rather than, like most Sargents, because of brilliant artifice, the picture was kept in the Knowles house and secreted from the public. Last week it arrived, for popular inspection, in the Howard...
...epoch before the mightiest minds were turned to providing parlor entertainment, long and uninteresting. Young sparks also were compelled to walk the long miles that lay between their cottages and those of their well-beloveds. Arriving tired and cold, they sought some warmer, some sprightlier diversion than sofa sitting in a chilly chamber. Bundling was invented for their convenience. It consisted of putting girl and boy into neat, warm, supposedly secure garments and tucking them into bed, where they might lie, talking or drowsing through the winter evenings. The practice was regarded as an incentive to lawful matrimony; never...