Word: chair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Argonaut simultaneously performed a miraculous journalistic somersault. The paper which had hailed Governor Merriam last autumn as "a symbol of strength, progress and stability of traditional growth" now declared: "Would Upton Sinclair have done worse in the gubernatorial chair than the man who defeated him? It may well be doubted. He might even have done better, for he has an atom or two of genius in his composition while all one can discern in Merriam is cobwebs from an empty skull. Heaven help us before we perish from the folly of having chosen such a man as Governor...
Last week President Sanford, anxious to take over his own new duties, expected to set Dr. Caldwell in the president's chair without waiting for ceremonies...
...Among artists made jobless by the closing of Manhattan's famed funclub Casino de Paree was Jeanette McCully, known to patrons as the Girl in the Fish Bowl, In the intermissions of the Casino floor show Miss McCully slipped off her dancing costume, seated herself on a seashell chair in a cubicle off the bar, with a silken "seaweed" laprobe over her knees. In front of Miss McCully was a curtain, in front of the curtain a tank of water, in front of the tank oglers. When Miss McCully raised the curtain her image, three inches high, was reflected...
...when a state which has been raised upon the personality of one man finds that he is gone. If history means anything, the autocracy has one of two fates; a howling chaos may engulf the country, in which men of definite ambitions and questionable talents fight for the chair of government, or else, when a so-called successes has been named to carry on the work, the dictatorship disintegrates with the body of its founder...
...candidate cleared his throat, opened his mouth to speak, then closed it again as a blank expression appeared on his face. The senior member of the committee stirred in his chair. He too cleared his throat, and the now silent group of scholars turned to listen...