Word: armchairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paris famed Raymond Poincare, President of France during the War, chattily discusses his prostatic hypertrophy, sitting up in a great armchair, surrounded by vases of lilies, roses, chrysanthemums...
According to a Court functionary, His Majesty ignored everything but the fairy tales, pounced on the big book, retreated to an armchair, buried his nose. Soon, perhaps, Boy-King Mihai was reading the story of Dwarf-King Gleamlet, getting ideas about Kingship from the tale of how Royal Gleamlet dealt with Whisk, the field rat, who had stolen his grain...
...some 60 newsmen were ushered into his hotel room. He had sent for them. In a well-fitting cutaway, Citizen Coolidge rose from an armchair placed behind a table, shook out his trouser legs, laid down his cigar holder, smiled. Then, without promptings or interruptions, he proceeded to interview himself for minutes while newsmen blinked their astonishment at his garrulity. Regardless of its other merits, what he said was worth $2,000 at the prices for which he now writes about himself. He began...
...Wensley method for solving a particularly trying mystery was always the same. Slumping into a big armchair...
...Although the Colonel was an honorary title, conferred by Congress, Colonel Knox was no armchair military man. He fought in the Civil War and was wounded at Gettysburg...