Word: armchairs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...18th and 19th centuries, the world's most powerful animal was hunted down in ships so small that the whale could, and sometimes did, butt them into driftwood. In all man's hunting, none has been so downright risky and exciting. As a result, no true armchair adventurer can easily bypass a readable new book about whaling...
...shopping expedition near his Manhattan apartment, Pulitzer Prize-winning Playwright Marc (The Green Pastures) Connelly, 63, strolled past a, five-story tenement, was squarely conked on the head by an old, wicker-seat armchair that mysteriously dropped from the building's roof. After cops surmised that the armchair strategists were probably mischievous kids, Connelly snorted: "I always knew children were antisocial, but children on the West Side-they're savages...
...Worn and wilted by a week-long attack of sporadic hiccups, Pope Pius XII canceled all audiences and spent most of his days sitting miserably in an armchair in the Vatican Palace...
...president of France's National Assembly sits high above the 627 deputies in a huge, brassbound armchair, and acts like the umpire at a political tennis match. Constitutionally, he ranks second only to the President of the Republic. Financially, his job is a choice plum: $15,000 a year, a black, six-cylinder Citroën and a chauffeur, a big apartment in the Palais Bourbon with Louis XV furniture, Sevres china, gold-plated silverware, even free gas and electricity...
...year-old Author Papini only sits and smiles from the great velvet armchair in his little villa in Florence where he spends his days, partially paralyzed and all but blind. "My relations with the Devil," he says, "are very ancient. They go back at least 50 years . . . The Devil, who plays an important part in the life of men, is unknown. It seems to me important that men should know him intimately." To the suggestion that he is in grievous error and may be ordered to withdraw the book, he points out that he is not engaged in defining doctrine...