Word: armchairs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Precisely at 9 p.m., the Dominion-wide network of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. tied into station CBO, in Ottawa's Chateau Laurier. There, in ail armchair at a desk, sat Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, facing two microphones. He was stripped for action-coat and vest unbuttoned, tie and detachable collar removed (later he spruced up for photographers). For 24 minutes he read from a 4,000-word manuscript, now & then gesturing with his right fast. At countless radios, the people listened...
...Bell P-59, only U.S. jet plane yet given a name and public showing, already far surpasses in range and general performance the two known German types (Me-262 and Me-163). U.S. air officers undisturbed by such skeptical armchair critics as the New York Times's Hanson W. Baldwin, are biding their time, expect to show the enemy some jet surprises before long...
...front-line correspondents and armchair experts had a Buck Rogers field day. They solemnly guessed: 1) that the balls of fire were radio-controlled (an obvious absurdity, since they could not be synchronized with a plane's movements by remote control); 2) that they were created by "electrical induction of some sort"; 3) that they were attracted to a plane by magnetism...
...Norfolk County, Sir Eric Teichman sat before a cosy fire and was content. Lunch was over and quiet lay on the big house. Then, from outside, came the sound of shots. Sir Eric, 60-year-old retired British diplomat and expert on Far Eastern affairs, rose from his armchair, growled to Lady Ellen: "I'm going out to stop this damned poaching." Unarmed, he set out to stop...
...perpetual air of urbanity, never loses his temper or tells people stories they have heard before. He lives with his pretty wife Charlotte (who writes children's books) and his daughter Marion, 17, in a modern redwood-paneled house. With some neighbors, he organized an armchair strategists' society after Pearl Harbor. Jackson also belongs to a club of mystery-story writers (Erie Stanley Gardner was an editorial colleague on the Sunset). For one club dinner, which 13 members were scheduled to attend, it was decided that a body should be found at the table. The club invited Cinemactress...