Word: armchairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Good "Papa" Joffre was snoring. He has a touch of water on the knee, nowadays, and he tires easily. Therefore after a morning stroll in his Paris garden last week the beloved old Marshal climbed stiffly and painfully upstairs, sank with relief into a large armchair, dozed off and soon was snoring...
Leaning forward in a carved armchair at the Palazzo Chigi, Signor Benito Musso- lini sat with his hard chin cupped between contented palms, last week, watching newsreel flashes of Cardinals and Monsignors marching to the ballot box (TIME, April 1), attended by blaring brass bands and wildly cheering throngs. Never before have Princes of the Church shepherded their clergy and people to vote in a Parliamentary Election of the present Italian Kingdom. Always before the priesthood has abstained, urging their flocks to do likewise, in protest against the Government's suppression of the Pope's temporal power in 1870. Recently...
...President's chair is a wicker-backed swiveller. A Presidential nod seats the Job-Seeker in a green leather armchair, edged close to the desk. He begins his earnest plea. . . . The Presidential eye reverts occasionally to an ornate gilt clock under glass upon the mantel. Every tick is treasured. The Job-Seeker rises...
From Manhattan Banker Jeremiah Milbank's yacht Saunterer, at anchor by a Florida key, a motor launch chugged away last week and nosed out northeastward across eight miles of wind-roughened water to the Gulf Stream. Perched high in a wicker armchair astern was Herbert Clark Hoover, a floppy hat shading his eyes, a three-inch starched collar prodding his digastric muscle...
lawyer, grandnephew of Daniel Webster, willed $964,000 of his more than $1,000,000 estate to Dartmouth College, along with photographs and the favorite armchair of Daniel Webster...