Word: chair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Adolf Hitler and Anthony Eden spent last week making history in Europe (see pp. 19, 22), Franklin Delano Roosevelt faced his own major problem,, Recession, by turning lecturer. Sitting in his office chair, directing a pointer at an easel covered with price charts, he expounded his Administration's theory of price trends: That some are too high, some too low and the U. S. will not have prosperity till they are balanced...
...Stewart), who revolts against a life of hand-me-down clothes, unreasonable re- straints, two-fisted godliness. When Jason goes to war, the action, divided between battlefield and pasture, falls into great maudlin chunks. Teariest scene: President Lincoln (John Carradine) making Jason Wilkins sit right down in the Presidential chair and write a letter home...
...maiden flight as "a night of hell. . . . Mr. King and I ... thought as long as we were going to crack up we might as well sit down like a couple of men-and take it. ... I realized what a man feels like when he sits down in the electric chair. ... I wrote a note to my wife. I felt we were going to crash and probably burn up. I figured that is what you do when you crash. You usually burn so I wrote this note . . . put it in my pocket hoping they would find...
...Vagabond stopped writing, leaned back in his chair, and gazed up at the queer stained-glass windows that lighted the Hall. He was tired of working at high speed, and the muscles of his right hand had frozen. He would rest a minute before putting the finishing touches on his essay. He took a hasty glance at his watch. Ten minutes of twelve. Why, in an hour and ten minutes he'd be boarding a train at South Station to carry him to the City and to this January's journey...
...rate of sixty miles an hour. It gave him a feeling of going places, a thrill that comes from the sense of speed and the feeling that one is utterly helpless to do anything about it save be carried along. He let himself down into the little camp chair on the platform, pulled his coat tightly around his knees to keep off the chill gusts of wind, and relaxed...