Word: armchairs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perie will be difficult competition, Smart fears, because he has been working out all winter "getting the feel of his equipment." Armchair study combined with the track managership this spring hasn't been the best sort of preparation for Smart...
...scenes in "The Lady from Shanghai," from New York to the West Indies to San Francisco, are all fresh as well as realistic, and the peculiar Welles touch is always there. The tortuonsness of the plot will provoke interest and armchair detective work rather than boredom, but it is important to make sure of the times and arrive at the beginning of the picture...
Take the tale about one venerable Crimson alumnus. Strikes and labor unions came after his time, according to the story that reached Boston, and he misinterpreted the activity outside the club. Quitting his armchair briefly one day, he hailed a passing picket...
...another part of Paris, a countess with a centuries-old name expressed it differently. She lay back in a deep armchair and waved a delicate hand in a vague, tired gesture: "Whether I am better off? Ma pauvre amie! A year ago I still had my servants-I can't afford them today. I go to market myself, line up in the queue and join the discussion of the housewives about carrots. There were times in my life when I didn't even know what carrots were...
...paintings were never like armchairs, but there was something soothing in their luxurious brilliance, and they sold well enough to provide him with plenty of armchair comfort. "Tell the American people," he urged a reporter, "that I am a devoted husband and father . . . that I go to the theater, ride horseback, have a comfortable home, a fine garden that I love . . . just like...