Search Details

Word: couchs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Damage to the Law School building was estimated at $2,000 by the University Fire Department. The blaze was probably started by a cigarette butt smoldering in a couch, they said. Walls were stripped to the bricks and books ruined as firemen chopped and sprayed to stop the fire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blaze at Law School Destroys Dorm Room; $2000 Damage | 11/4/1952 | See Source »

...husband Richard Quine; in Visalia, Calif. Paralyzed from the waist down, she tried a film comeback (The Sign of the Ram) playing the part of a cripple, later toured in stage plays (The Glass Menagerie, The Barretts of Wimpole Street) that could be acted from a wheelchair or a couch. Her doctor gave the "primary cause" of death as a chronic kidney ailment and bronchial pneumonia, added "I felt she had lost the will to live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 3, 1952 | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

...none of the posters or stickers usually plastered on the walls of a campaign headquarters. I walked in, "Pardon me, but is this Independents for Kennedy." "No," said one of them. The three eyed me closely. "Well, wasn't it here?" A thick-set man, sitting on a couch answered. "We don't know anything about Independents for Kennedy...

Author: By Michael Maccoby, | Title: Independents for Kennedy | 10/23/1952 | See Source »

Santayana appears to have had a taste for puns, not always of the most hilarious sort. One of his cartoons shows an undergraduate and a young lady sitting primly on a couch; the student is telling his girls, "If I look a little sheepish Miss Roseleaf, and all my friends tell me I do, it is because my clothes are all wool...

Author: By Ronald P. Kriss, | Title: As Student and Teacher, Santayana Left Mark on College | 9/30/1952 | See Source »

...Britons are psychoanalyzed (man on the couch to his analyst, who is sound asleep in a chair behind him: ". . . and always, I feel that I'm an awful bore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Listen for the Roars | 9/29/1952 | See Source »

First | Previous | 363 | 364 | 365 | 366 | 367 | 368 | 369 | 370 | 371 | 372 | 373 | 374 | 375 | 376 | 377 | 378 | 379 | 380 | 381 | 382 | 383 | Next | Last