Word: chair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the Croupier's Chair...
...green battle scene ($250), stood in every room. Lumberman Long had few pictures, none by famed artists, but liked bibelots like his small ivory goose ($2.25). Gongs announced dinner even when Mr. Long was alone and his valet played the organ while he sat on Aubusson-tapestried chairs, ate from English china, drank from hand-cut crystal goblets (sold for $280). At large dinners, a silver tankard more than two feet high ($135) decorated the table. A sufferer from asthma, Mr. Long had a mahogany stand on which he kept his atomizer. In the basement...
...Judge Waste and his associates on the Supreme bench last week declared the Lamson new-trial story untrue, cited the Chronicle, Editor Chester Rowell and Managing Editor William D. Chandler for contempt of court. Crowds that flocked to the hearing to see Republican Pundit Rowell squirm in a witness chair were disappointed. The editors were represented by lawyers. Scolded Justice Waste: "It does not look like due diligence was exercised to determine whether the information on the article was true. I am pestered by telephone calls on all important cases. A word to the Chief Justice would have brought prompt...
...jury convicted Robert Edwards of first degree murder, sentenced him to death in the electric chair...
...possibilities of among other things, the x-ray, of novocaine, and of proper nutrition, Dr. Miner found himself in a position to take commanding lead in the advocacy of a merger. How effective that lead has been is amply demonstrated first in the establishment of the Forsyth Chair of Dental Science in 1926, and now, in the establishment of the University Committee on Research in Dental Medicine...