Word: armchairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your weekly onslaught against the British Empire is really quite amusing, and I am writing to suggest that you change the name of your paper to the "Armchair Critic...
...Armchair Critic...
...with accounts of Hindu fakirs who floated unsupported in mid-air before the eyes of hundreds, or climbed a miraculous rope until they were lost to sight. Skeptical listeners, psychic researchers, men of science have scoffed at these marvels, called them a romantic variety of mass hypnotism. Last week armchair theorists got a shock when a set of photographs taken in broad daylight by two hard-headed Britishers reached the U. S. The pictures show a white-robed Indian Yogi reclining several feet above the ground in a sculpturesque attitude of repose. Except for his long-nailed right hand cupped...
...Patrick's Day dinner of the Charitable Irish Society, the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee was jovial and easy with reporters in his room at the Copley-Plaza last night. Minus coat, tie and collar, his six-foot bulk draped over the side of an armchair, he parried press questions and waxed very optimistic about Democratic chances next fall...
...drawing room of Lawrence P. Fisher, President of Cadillac Motor Car Co., Detroit's seven shy, body-building Fisher Brothers seated their mother in a high-backed armchair, posed for their first picture together (see cut). Famed for their family loyalty, the Fisher Brothers are especially solicitous for white-haired Mrs. Margaret .Fisher. Starting with Brother Fred on Sunday, each has a special evening on which he pays her a weekly call. Last week Mrs. Fisher had a birthday. Present at a reception in Brother Lawrence's house, largest of the seven large Fisher houses, were three Fisher...