Word: armchairs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...come home some evening with a terrific appetite, don't rush to supper. Relax, as I did, in the coziest little armchair imaginable, and read a delightful article on page 81, called "Children Can Be Taught Life," by Dorothy May Anderson. It's all about how the author, when but a tot of twelve, too so long arranging the flowers for the table that she had an awful time getting lunch prepared on time...
...Roman Roads. The Packards' second-front strategy, for which the rest of their book is sprawling, disorganized documentation, emanates less from the armchair than from the bouncing seats of cars on Mussolini's roads. To watch the Fascist empire at war, the Packards jolted over thousands of miles of Neo-Roman roads in Abyssinia, Spain, Albania, North Africa and Italy...
...layman's shortest shortcut to an understanding of war. Now, in Decisive Battles of the U.S.A., General Fuller has given U.S. citizens a similar shortcut to an appreciation of specifically U.S. talents and weaknesses on the field of battle. It is a book for the education of armchair strategists...
...itself to the new situation. With recent polls showing a very slight student and a definite faculty majority in favor of Negro admittance, Princeton has now reached the point where it must either practice what it preaches or be content with the humiliation of attacking race prejudice from the armchair only. In connection with this the Council's move was an obvious evasion, since the Graduate School constitutes a very small part of the University and the phrase "orientation" is meaningless...
Meanwhile the Navy is scouring U.S. colleges for 30,000 flyers a year. The armchair admirals, fuming to their hearts' content, will find out all about it in good time...