livingroomful
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[edit]Noun
[edit]livingroomful (plural not attested)
- Alternative form of living-roomful
- 1953 November 27, Bob Thomas, “Movie Comeback Hopes Pinned On Pay-See TV”, in The Hartford Courant, volume CXVII, Hartford, Conn., page nineteen:
- A whole livingroomful will be able to see the picture for that charge.
- 1956 December 9, Harry Harris, “Screening TV: ‘Culture’ Role for Critics”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, volume 255, number 162, Triangle Publications, page 14 C:
- The TV audience stayed away by the livingroomful.
- 1965 August 15, The Pittsburgh Press, volume 82, number 53, section 3, page 28:
- SAVINGS BY THE LIVINGROOMFUL!
- 1974, Rachel Rosenthal, “Excerpts from “Rachel Rosenthal” (1974)”, in Moira Roth, editor, Rachel Rosenthal, Baltimore, Md., London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, published 1997, →ISBN, page 150:
- Vanessa officiated in curlers and dirty dressing gown and slippers every Wednesday in her $150,000 mansion north of Sunset, for a livingroomful of Hollywood characters, hopefuls, starlets, and (we were always told) Famous Producers.
- 1977, Sidney Bernard, Witnessing: The Seventies, New York, N.Y.: Horizon Press, →ISBN, page 100:
- A livingroomful of some thirty zippies of slightly different mien from those at the Bob/Rex go—more hardcore activist, most of them, on the WRL (War Registers League) barricades, hence less romantic in the day-to-day tactics for winning America (WRL seldom uses the Kafkaesque “k”) back to the ways-days of peace, back to the Declaration—Bill of Rights.
- 1978 February 20, Maryanne Conheim, “Profile: A career chilled by caviar”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, volume 298, number 51, page 1-D:
- “I had a whole livingroomful of people in to see it,” he said, “but it was just awful. […]”
- 1987 December 24, “Enjoying Earth's Greatest Show”, in Southern Utah News, volume 57, number 12, Kanab, Utah, page three:
- And Christmas evening we’ll open the whole livingroomful of gifts worth hundreds of dollars.