Word: couching
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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First door to the right, inside the executive offices of the White House, is the press room. Last desk, in the best corner, next the radio, near a couch, belongs to J. Russell Young, White House correspondent (for the last 20-odd years)* of the rich, conservative Washington Star...
Three engines and the first chief handled the blase adequately. From tutor Thaddeus Lockhart came the remark. "That boy will have to have his studio couch re-done...
...inner office he was alone, save for the familiar things around him: the tidy desk; his old couch, black beneath a knitted blue shawl, two white pillows and an Army blanket (which he sometimes wore like a toga on cold afternoons in the park) ; on the wall, a framed copy of Stanzas on Freedom by James Russell Lowell; on the mantel, two ancient lamps and a cane, carved of wood from Borah Peak in Idaho. The secretaries in the outer office heard his full, fluid voice; the Senator was reading, aloud and twice over, some document which he wanted...
George Bernard Shaw, rung up by London papers, admitted himself baffled, chirped: "Hold on a moment while I ask a friend who ought to know." The friend did not. Neither did H. G. Wells: "I have never heard the quotation before." Said learned Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge since 1912: "I had no idea of its origin...
Heywood Broun, said Monsignor Sheen, had tried psychoanalysis, had lain on a couch for hours of "questionings on trivial incidents," but "never once did he find peace." He turned to the Church, he told Monsignor Sheen, for four reasons...