Word: couches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other aids people are beginning to have a contempt for the stories of mysterious denizens of the deep. Sea-serpents will be found crouching among the water lilies of every garden pool, and the next problem in upholstering will be how to transform the octopus into the parlor couch...
Wallace Irwin is short, stoutish, always smiling through his glasses and snapping his eyes as he talks in little grunting periods. He will slouch down on a couch, then tell you a story as though it were being shot at you from some great distance. The last time I saw him he was complaining of a diet that was being imposed upon him, which he insisted was nothing but "rabbit's food...
...soot-laden white mist of great weight. Owing to the warmth of the ground and the consequent lighter pressure the fog descends from its chilly couch in the skies-that is, when there is no wind to blow it away-and covers the earth until the heat gradually dissipates it. Were it not for the soot, the mist would probably be dissipated by the surface heat as it descended...
Author's Pajamas? Lewis St. Clair, popular novelist, arose from his perfumed couch, par took of a frugal breakfast of spaghetti and vodka, and stepped out into the glare of his prominence. His 5,000,000 readers, of varying sexes and doubtful ages, gave little excited shivers and trained their opera glasses immediately upon him. For it is a characteristic of all readers that they would rather see an author than read another of his books. They would give ten times the price of his complete works to know that he parts his left eye-brow in the middle...
...sound was heard save a muffied churkle from the figure on the couch...