Word: armchairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...under contract to produce daily one lull editorial column feature (mostly verse) called "Tennessee-Uns" and to handle sports. He wrote nearly a full column of sports verse and views daily. The only way he could write was with both legs spraddled across the typewriter, lolling back in an armchair. And no wonder, considering his daily output...
...zero sense of humor, passed to a condemnation of "passive words and phrases such as insediarsi" (to install oneself). According to Starace, to say that a Fascist has been installed in a new post "is to bring to mind a sedia [chair] or worse a poltrona [armchair]. Such words give the impression that an official's first act in his new post is to sit down. Inadmissable! Say instead that he has assumed or shouldered the burden of his new office...
...canvas-backed armchair in front of my table. On it I put an alarm clock, my shaving-mirror, a pencil, a memorandum pad, a glass of water and a teaspoonful of the powder. I slipped into the chair, faced the mirror, poured the powder into the water-drank it, looked at the clock, took the pencil and wrote on the pad: 'Took powder one minute past two o'clock.' Then I leaned back and waited for things to happen...
Least concerned was Niece Lucille Norton. Found by newshawks last week in an armchair with a book entitled The Meaning of Marx at hand, she scoffed at the idea of any Communist trying to "convert" her, admitted that Chicago is "one of the best places to learn about Communism if you want...
...heartstrings may quiver at the thought of corrupting English 2 into English 22; to some the progression from the Anglo-Saxon of 3a through the Elizabethan of 32 and the Alexandrian of 50b to the Georgian of 26 may spell abracadabra. Nevertheless, hoary-headed tradition must retire to its armchair when faced with a definite improvement...