Word: chair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...call of the swivel chair and big buzzers with buttons once again proves more potent than the excitement of the courtroom or the harrowing drama of the country doctor's life as the Senior class plumps for business as an intended vocation over law and medicine...
...school. As a young man his painstakingly realistic illustrations of a book on parrots got him a job sketching the private menagerie of the Earl of Derby. His first meals were taken with the Earl's steward, but Lear's charm and humor soon won him a chair in the dining room...
Thence, in his sedia gestatoria (portable chair) the Pope proceeded to the Basilica of St. John Lateran and the real business of the day. In a three-hour complicated ritual, he ascended and descended four Papal thrones, accepted two keys to the Lateran, gave his Cardinals special commemorative medals, laid an offering in a crimson velvet, gold-embroidered purse on the high altar. The long rite over, he appeared to the patient crowds on the balcony of the Basilica's portico. Mussolini's Italian guards struck up the papal hymn, the Pope's Palatine guards blared...
...Cambridge. He is a tall, stocky man with nervous mannerisms and a beard which time has changed from red to an indefinite color. He were a blue sult, a wide-collared shirt with a loosely knotted tie and punctuated his remarks by throwing him self forward in his chair when he wanted to make a point. Once he Jumped onto the arm of his chair to illustrate that America was on the economic precipice and the ways in which a fall could be avoided...
Short and stocky, the well-known history expert leaned back in his chair and after a pause began again; "As for the recent resignation of Litvinoff, Russian Foreign, Commissar, I certainly do not believe that it is preliminary to an alliance with Germany. A Hitler-Stalin alliance would be fantastic and it seems to me more likely that Stalin is just trying to scare Chamberlain into a more active agreement...