Word: armchairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stars and throws the stars away." By way of corroboration. he kidnaps his 10-year-old daughter from his estranged wife (Erin O'Brien-Moore); whisks her along the coast of France on a 30-day inspection of gambling casinos; ties a discarded mistress in an armchair where she suffocates; goes to jail for murder; escapes after 13 years to rescue his daughter who has been convinced by her mother that she is a chronic invalid. It appears certain, when His Greatest Gamble ends, that Philip Eden will go back to jail and his daughter (Dorothy Wilson) will marry...
...Dalai Lama. All these things he accomplished. He interviewed the Tashi Lama himself, witnessed "devil-dances" in the sacred city, set the first European foot on the Transhimalayan range. But Traveler Hedin's graphic descriptions, no less graphic sketches, while they make good reading for armchair travelers, will lure few to follow him to a chilly land where every countryman goes armed, where the chief fuel is yak dung, where dead bodies are exposed for the vultures to pick clean, where a stuck-out tongue is a friendly greeting...
...Twice as large as an ordinary living room, it was a study in green and brown. One whole wall was a bank of French windows facing on a sunny balcony. At opposite ends rose huge black marble fireplaces. Before one of them sat Mr. Farley, in a green leather armchair, at a walnut desk with a green glass top. He rose, blushing with pride, and declared: "We're certainly grateful to the Republicans for all of this." As the newshawks gaped, his pride overcame him. "Look at the bathroom!" he exclaimed. It was such a chamber as only ladies...
...teaching extension courses to background and is characteristic of correspondence courses and courses which give a mastery of English literature by spending fifteen minutes a day. The college student, however, is expected to have a sufficient amount of brains and intellectual interest to master a subject without resort to armchair talks" or popular lecturing. If the Freshman is not treated from the first as a mature individual, capable of accepting responsibility and is nurtured upon spoon-fod knowledge, he will soon find college work too much for him when he encounters a professor who has no consideration for his "immaturity...
...Publish periodical war scares. Impress governmental officials with the vital necessity of maintaining armaments against the "agreesions" of neighbor states. Bribe as necessary. In every practical way create suspicion that security is threatened. And if you do your job thoroughly enough you will be able to sink into your armchair and reach the contented words of Eugene Schneider, announcing a dividend to his shareholders; "The defense of our country has brought us satisfactions which cannot be ignored...