Word: chair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advice of his Attorney General, who declared the House's action "incomplete" until it should appoint a board of managers and submit articles of impeachment to the Senate, strapping "Tom" Moodie kept his broad beam firmly planted in the Governor's chair...
With photographers on hand, Miss Maxwell permitted four dancers (not debutantes) to put their forefingers under her thighs and armpits. All five breathed together, the girls lifted and Miss Maxwell levitated nervously. Back in her chair, she shrilled: "I think it mad fun, utterly mad! I shall introduce it at my party for Noel Coward. . . . Why not toss the subject into the air and then run? It's a splendid way to snub an unwelcome guest. . . . Do it again...
...roof garden, Home Economics and Health Education departments, a weekday Church School for children, the nation's largest Daily Vacation Bible School, an employment agency, a Music School, a Dramatic School and 53 clubs and auxiliaries. Furthermore the Church supports a missionary in Africa, a summer camp, a chair at Virginia Union University and an Old Folks Home. And lastly there is the Friendly Society which holds fried chicken socials, pays for sick benefits and funerals of its 1,000 members, and which last week had the Abyssinian Baptist Church in a high dither...
...living room full of reporters in a Manhattan hotel last week. In his long career of managing magicians, wrestlers, promoting rollerskating, staging Christmas pantomimes, producing drawing-room dramas and musical extravaganzas, Mr. Cochran had never before exhibited such diffidence in dealing with the Press. Pointing solemnly to a chair, he said in a hushed voice: "Boys, this is where she is going to sit. Now please don't ask her questions of an embarrassing nature...
Purchasers of this gaudy red volume will have within one set of covers such sensational camera trophies as: Ruth Snyder squirming in the electric chair; the slanting deck of the sinking S. S. Vestris; Leo Frank swinging from a Georgia tree; the "Rolphing" at San Jose; a Nebraska Negro crisply incinerated; Chicago's St. Valentine's Day Massacre; William Warnecke's famed shot of Mayor Gaynor wounded; public executions in the Chinese manner (strangulation), the French manner (guillotine), the Mexican manner (shooting), the Persian manner (interment), the Abyssinian manner (dismemberment), the Japanese manner (decapitation), the British manner...