Word: armchairs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard, members of a student "Committee for the Recognition of Classroom Generals" picketed (in gas masks) a class of interventionist History Teacher Paul P. Cram, sent tin soldiers and armchair professorial citations to five other professors. Meanwhile 34 members of the class of '17 sent a letter to the Crimson deploring undergraduate pacifism...
...beer from 9? to 10? per pint; whiskey from $2.50 to $2.80 a bottle. In Britain telephone and telegraph are State monopolies and the Chancellor raised their inland rates 15%, left overseas business rates unchanged to favor British trade. Finally Sir John almost doubled the ordinary British postal rates. Armchair London economists quickly figured that all these measures will cost the "average Briton" an extra shilling and sevenpence weekly...
...Pilot: Wilbur Wright. Duration: 3 min. Altitude reached: 97 ft.) Last week Expatriate Druce, sixtyish, two days after returning to the U. S., took her second flight as a guest of American Airlines in a modern transport plane over New York City. As a stewardess helped her into an armchair aboard the airliner, she called to the pilot: "Not too high and not too far, young...
...latest furniture is typical. To be completely up-to-date, the modernists turned a model living room on its side and fastened it to the wall, but its furniture-rug, table, overstuffed sofa, padded armchair, etc.-looked comfortable even from that angle. And there was not a single piece of steel tubing in the room...