Word: armchairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Roosevelt sat in his big armchair with his back to the windows of his oval office and beamingly told newshawks as they trooped in for their press conference that he had a lot of news for them. He told about General MacArthur's being held over as Chief of Staff, told about plans for a new local airport. Then he intimated that he had something really important...
...Associated Pressman, admitted to the Royal Palace, found Marie of Rumania slightly red-nosed, but still regal, draped theatrically in a high-backed armchair...
...last three weeks every arsonist out of jail in Chicago has been shivering in his boots. Reason was a fat, squat little grandmother named Bertha Warshovsky who was comfortably seated in an armchair at the State Attorney's office telling her life story...
...thousands of armchair adventurers to whom the spell of the Arctic has been only a dream . . . this summer you can follow trails traveled before only by explorers. . . . Adventure, yet perfect safety...
Corporative State? Ironically, the Man With the Cleft Nose was not mustered into the Hitler Cabinet to play the desperate role of Economic Tsar but to equip Germany with an ordered "Corporative State." Chancellor Hitler, who despises armchair economists, took a keen personal liking to dynamic Dr. Schmitt as a "frontline war fighter." (His nose, however, was not cleft in battle but in a student duel.) Not an original Nazi, Dr. Schmitt entered the Cabinet with a reputation as Germany's No. 1 insurance tycoon, a man of rugged integrity whose energy and calm enabled the Frankfurter Insurance...