Word: armchairs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cripple's bedroom the door that leads to the terrace begins to bang. The girl wakes, wheels across the room to close it, sees a queer light flickering in the summerhouse, wheels across the terrace, opens the summerhouse door, looks in, sees her father sitting in an armchair-dead...
...Cost of Hunting. No committee member was a more indefatigable antique hunter than Jackie herself. In storage, and in antique shops in Baltimore. New York and London, she uncovered such prizes as a Bellange pier table ordered by President Monroe and a Victorian slipper armchair of the Lincoln period. Steadfastly claiming that "the question of money should be subordinated to esthetic values," Jackie and the committee refused to reveal prices. But some of the pieces cost as much as $13,000. What Jackie was discovering was a fact happily known to every antique dealer in the U.S.-Early Americana comes...
Huddled in his leather armchair, his feet neatly encased in old-fashioned high boots, Portugal's fading dictator suddenly seemed very weary. "Maybe," said Salazar, "I have lived beyond my time...
...them back to the airport terminal. Soon several of Kasavubu's cabinet ministers were on the scene, urging Katanga's boss to return to the talks. "If that's the way you run the Congo, good luck," retorted Tshombe. He sat down in an old wicker armchair and refused to budge or even to eat until he was freed. "I am a prisoner," he declared hotly...
...Adam and Eve from Paradise, a nonviolent exile in which the principals appear to have shed everything, including expressions of remorse. Of the relatively few El Grecos in the U.S., the chosen canvas is not an anguished saint or sinner, but a corpulent Trinitarian monk at ease in an armchair...