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...sure those headquarters will cost the Democrats many votes. The great empty anteroom, about 75 ft. long by 25 ft. wide, with only one lone boy at the entrance, one telephone operator and never more than one visitor waiting on a sofa, has the same moral effect as staging a mass meeting of six persons in Madison Square Garden...
...should give more pats on the head and fewer raps on the knuckle. But it is obvious that he really bows before Kipling's God of Things as They Are. It is Zangwill determined to grow old gracefully. He is intent on raising the dust by thumping sofa cushions which have already had the stuffing knocked out of them by numerous writers. His stodgy play is only occasionally relieved with flashes of wit, and sudden fits of farcical frenzy...
...sell sentiment-not in Washington," shouted a perspiring auctioneer as he knocked down for only $45 a mahogany sofa, two armchairs and one other chair-all upholstered in velour. He was conductting the sale of the furniture of 2314 Wyoming Ave., Washington, D. C., formerly the home of Senator Warren G. Harding, of Ohio. The furnished house was sold by the late President and recently resold, which caused the auction of the furniture. The prices paid for Mr. Harding's belongings were commensurate with their intrinsic rather than sentimental value...
Miss Brown: "There stands the sofa upon which Mr. Lincoln courted his wife...
Scene: Window seat, gules and sofa, azur. Two seniors couchant...