Word: armchairs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Armchair Auditing," the latest brainchild program of the Crimson Network, will bring to the air tomorrow night the first of a series of regular academic lectures by professors and department heads in the University...
...relations went the youngest Rear Admiral of World War II, 43-year-old Harold B. Miller. Fitted out with flag rank when he became the Navy's Director of Public Relations in 1945, Annapolisman Miller has behind him 20 years of naval flying, four books on aviation. No armchair officer until he became the Navy's pressagent, able, handsome "Min" Miller squeaked through both the Akron and Macon disasters in the '30s, was both flying and deck officer before the Navy discovered that he had a way with publicity...
...slightly overdone, and occasionally approaches the prissiness of Edward Everett Horton. Mary Mason, his uncon-summate wife, has an annoyingly shrill voice which would convincingly irritate any husband, onstage or off. Alexander Clark, as Victor Prynne, is described by his wife as "a fat old gentleman in a club armchair," and is just that...
Alexander P. de Seversky, planemaker and armchair strategist (Victory through Airpower), was elected mayor of Asharoken Village, N.Y. He got 23 of the 40 votes cast. Village trustee: Cartoonist Rube Goldberg...
Calmest man in the kingdom was the new ruler himself. In an unadorned chamber of his hilltop palace he settled down on his throne-a raised, overstuffed armchair. The tough, aging (64) little man wore a simple black silk abbaya (flowing robe) with a gleaming white shirtfront, a white and gold headdress, and the gold chain which in Arab countries takes the place of a crown. Near him were his two sons and his kinsman Abdul Ilah, Regent of Iraq (which Abdullah dreams of drawing into a Greater Syria federation...