Word: armchairs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crowds gathered outside the building, for Don Francisco's windows were generously open. When Bank Manager Jose Santamaria sent plenipotentiaries upstairs with a request please to stop the noise, Don Francisco greeted them from his armchair where he lolled, walking stick between his knees, a glass of manzanilla in his hand. "Go away," he waved. "Let a man enjoy music in peace. Get back to your figures and books. Kindly disturb me no longer...
...valuable baggage of anecdote, legend, old documents, and excerpts from fron tier diaries. A generous sprinkling of old prints and photographs helps to make This Reckless Breed of Men an impor tant discovery for any armchair explorer of western Americana...
...cluster around father as he read Dickens to them. Tom's mother wrote a dramatic poem on the life of Savonarola. Tom Eliot was a frail and quiet child. Often, when friends wanted him to come out and play, they found him curled up in a big leather armchair, reading...
...heart of Naples lives a stubby, stooped old man whom Neapolitans call "Don Benedetto." Though he is in his 80s, the old man ordinarily rises at 6, and an hour later trudges into his book-lined study to write at his big desk or to sit in his big armchair, thinking. Occasionally Neapolitans see him out strolling, passing dilapidated palaces and ancient churches, to his favorite bookshop on the Via Foria for a bout of friendly dickering. But last week Neapolitans were troubled: out of the palazzo had come the news that Philosopher Benedetto Croce was gravely...
...Royal Palace one morning last week, 335 frock-coated Dutch and Indonesian officials gathered around a green baize table to hear Juliana, Queen of The Netherlands, end 340 years of Dutch rule in Indonesia. Juliana entered the palace hall followed by her husband, Prince Bernhard. From her crimson-upholstered armchair, she spoke clearly and melodiously: "Immeasurable," said she, "is the satisfaction of a nation that finds its liberty realized . . ." As Juliana finished, the palace carillon pealed out first the Indonesian and then the Dutch anthem, and one of her four uniformed lackeys fell flat on his face in a dead...