Word: armchairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they visit their tutors once a week and pass an examination twice a year. Pupils usually read essays on their reading to their tutors. One pupil, Briant relates, passed his essays, with the marginal criticisms of his tutor, along to his successors. Thereafter "the complacent Fellow sat in his armchair, agreeably engrossed in his own problems, while year after year different pupils read him the same essays." The Briant conclusions: Not more than 20% of Oxford's students attend the university for "love of learning"; an undergraduate with average common sense can acquire a "pass" degree with two weeks...
...start excavations for public works, watched him hold court in a police station, excoriating racketeers, slot-machine purveyors. Only unguarded moment: a rump-wise view of His Honor clambering over the gunwhale of a boat on one of his inspection tours; only peaceful moment: Husband LaGuardia flopping into an armchair at home after a hard day's work, patting his wife's cheek when she announced his favorite dish, pasta e fagiuoli, for supper...
Feature of the evening was a Virginia Reel danced by a party in costume including Newshawks Raymond Clapper, J. Fred Essary, Ulric Bell, Ernest Lindley, Secretary Morgenthau, James Roosevelt and their wives, not to mention Gracie Hall Roosevelt and his sister, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt. The President from his armchair called the changes: "Do-see-do! Down the middle and back again! . . . Swing your partner around to the right." Fledgling newshawks clapped in time to Turkey in the Straw, Dixie and Yankee Doodle. Soon a half-dozen reels, more energetic than polished, were in progress in different parts...
Perhaps, as the friend who is reading the sports page in his old green armchair complains, these thoughts tend to the sentimental and the florid, but how else would one think of Spring? Would one peek out the window, sec leaves waving on trees, lawnmowers on the grass, and merely cry, "Swell"? Would one stroll along either bank of the Charles, search the darkness for couples increasing the pleasure of the night, and, but sigh? At least, one should do more than sigh...
During the next few weeks without rousing the suspicions of even crack Washington correspondents. Mr. Lewis frequently slipped away to the Mayflower, trudging the floor of the steelmaster's suite, Taylor sitting thoughtfully in an armchair...