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...market place and in the great hall before the belching statue of Ba'al Hammon, whose appetite was for little babies, the reclining couch strategists of Carthago reasoned that the root of the failure lay in the refusal of the Hasdrubals, Hamilcars, Hannos and Himilcos to profit by the example of Daedalus. Imprisoned by Minos in the labyrinth in Crete, Daedalus had fixed wings to his shoulders with wax and flown to Sicily. Had the great Hannibal been home, instead of wandering about Italy hunting for legions to defeat, they assured one another, he would have known...
...flight singers, some from Manhattan's Metropolitan. Isolde spent her first act reclining on a shipboard divan, with the necessary business carried out by her maid Brangäne. The second-act love scene had perhaps the fittest staging in history: Tristan and Isolde sang on a couch. In the last act, Isolde was carried on stage by Tristan's old retainer Kurwenal and tenderly deposited beside her dying lover...
Unlike Europeans, says Cohn, only four alternatives present themselves to an American couple whose marriage has run into obstacles: 1) "going home to Mamma," 2) "getting a divorce," 3) "getting tight," 4) "draping oneself on a psychoanalytical couch." Shocked by the trials of marriage, men &. women have turned for help to scientists and doctors. Sample findings...
Comfortably curled up on Mickey's couch, contentedly licking herself, lay a beautiful black cat and five kittens to whom she had just given birth. Dismayed at finding this abandoned, fatherless family in his abode, Rooney at once suspected Franco W. Peabody, 3rd '46, notorious for picking up stray cats, and accused him of the blackguardly deed...
...studio couch, rug, and drapes were destroyed last night by fire suspected to have been started by a cigarette in Lowell F-42. Edward B. Gray, Jr. and Samuel S. Hall, 3rd, occupants of the room, were not home at the time, but the blaze was quickly squelched by the Cambridge Fire Department after having been reported by a passerby...