Word: armchairs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...throne was an ordinary armchair in claret-colored upholstery, his garb a spotless white shirt and beige ankle-length robe, elastic-sided boots, and a white turban wound around his head, one end hanging rakishly loose in Hejaz style. Once Abdullah installed a set of distorting mirrors in the entrance to his audience chamber so that he could chuckle at the changing shapes of approaching people, particularly dignified British diplomats...
When the National Collegiate Athletic Association voted (161 to 7) to ration football telecasts this fall, it proposed a diet of one game a week for each television area. This lean fare, the N.C.A.A. hoped, would get the football public out of its armchair and back into the stands again. But last week, tempted by an offer of some $250,000 from ABC for the right to televise its eight home games, the University of Pennsylvania plunked the public back in its armchair by announcing it intended to defy the N.C.A.A. ruling...
...vicarious, on-the-spot experience comes over the air from tape-recorded documentaries made under fire by combat correspondents of the U.S. armed forces. Most of them have been made by young (39) Lieut. Colonel Wes McPheron. With McPheron, armchair listeners have crouched in a forward observation post watching a tank-artillery duel and stood helpless in an aid station listening to the moans of a soldier crippled by a mortar burst. Last month they leaped with him out of a Flying Boxcar over Munsan, plunged down to earth with paratroopers of the Army's 187th Regimental Combat Team...
Even in England, the enthusiasm for Jocelyn Brooke and his metaphysical puzzlers (See above) is pretty much restricted to the critics and the advance guard. The ordinary armchair Englishman is far more likely to prefer Geoffrey Cotterell. There are no great puzzles in Cotterell. A 31-year-old middle-class Englishman, Cotterell writes about other middle-class Englishmen in a manner designed to let the whole breed murmur to themselves: There but for the grace...
...just about closing time when the corpse walked into the photographic studio of Mr. Mortimer Jenkyn. "Without speaking, he moved straight across the room and posed himself in front of the dingy back-ground of painted trees . . . seated himself in the faded armchair, crossed his legs, drew up the little round table with the artificial roses upon it ... and struck an attitude. He meant to be photographed...