Word: armchairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vagabond, dozing in his favorite armchair, and pulling peacefully on his favorite briar, watched a bookcase full of forbidding volumes slowly sink into a summer sea, precisely the same sea, in fact, on which the Vagabond had stemmed his way hither and yon in the breezes of August. A scene fished upon his inner eye,--the scene of two vessels, well out to sea, one a stately yacht, glistening with brass and pearly canvas, the other a grim, gray cutter of the revenue fleet. At the same moment a puff of white smoke escaped the muzzle of the signal...
...Hamilton, Bermuda, William Leach suddenly left his armchair to get a book. Just then a bolt of lightning came down the chimney, destroyed the chair...
...great armchair beside a radio in the study of the Executive Mansion at Albany held the Governor of New York most of last week. Through the quiet room boomed the confused sounds of the Democratic convention in Chicago. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, his lame legs stretched out before him, official duties forgotten, leaned back and listened happily. At his feet was his Scotch terrier, Megs. Nearby hovered his wife Anna. His 77-year-old mother knitted silently. Sons Elliott, 21, and John, 16, paced about in nervous excitement...
...nurse, little Easter, the story's heroine, manages to mind her P's & Q's for a minute, but not for more. There are her cousins Evelyn and Basil to get into mischief with, and Patsy the scullery boy. Patsy breeds ferrets in an overstuffed armchair, knows the countryside and its sports like a book. Fox hunting and trout fishing are more than half of the children's education. The rest they pick up almost unawares in the highly civilized company of Great-Aunt Dicksie, who oversees the housekeeping, and Aunt Brenda, the boys' widowed...
...lines for a run of 50 and the match.* When Van Belle and Poensgen played their match, in the red-plush and gilt-scroll lodgeroom of the Elks' Club, they were the only undefeated players left in the tournament. Van Belle was nervous. Sitting in a stiff armchair, he puckered up his lips, blinked gloomily at the ivory joint of his cue while Poensgen had the table. He was only once able to get control of his game, for a brilliant run of 69, before Poensgen had the match 400 to 206. Poensgen was still undefeated when he played...