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...last week he was urgently summoned. His black hair waving, he ran down to the barber shop. There, anxious barbers stood about a chair. In the chair he found his Democratic friend, Senator Andrieus Aristieus Jones of New Mexico, white and immobile. "An attack" spluttered a barber. Seeing no couch in the shop, Doctor-Senator Copeland told the barbers to lay Senator Jones on the floor. He despatched the bootblack for whiskey and had a barber telephone for Rear Admiral Grayson.* The bootblack quickly returned with several containers of whiskey and other restoratives. Senator Jones revived. Presently the Doctor-Admiral...
Late yesterday afternoon the managing editor came into the Sanctum, where we were lying on the couch, busily doing nothing. "Are you asleep?" he asked...
...from the date he constructed his first sign there. I signed the contract instantly, and returned it to Mr. Davis. What manner of signs he may erect if from a bedroom 'hung with soft draperies and filled with cushioned chairs' to a barren room with only a couch for a bed and books for adornment. It was surprising that the World did not know that our family has never gone deeply into the social whirl. When we first came to Washington, I announced that I would continue to do my own cooking (TIME, April 6, 1925), a resolution...
...Mayerling it was granted her to pass one more night. Next morning the Archduke and the Baroness were found reclining together on a couch. His head had been almost blown off by a sporting rifle, evidently inserted into his mouth. She had been strangled. The razor lay upon the floor. How this came about is not and probably will not be known...
That is the point of the whole thing. Any playwright who must get his laughs from a revolver explosion, a smear of lipstick on the temple, and a fall on a couch that looks like a juggler getting ready to spin a barrel on his feet is no safe playmate for even the best stockcompany. It is to be supposed that at least two happy couples were united before the play closed: thereof the chronicler telleth not. In fact, he is thinking of writing a book called "Third Acts, by one who has never been there...