Word: chair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...marble floor. It resembled the attic of a mechanically-and-chemically-inclined household; his secretary had the look of a woman who had taken one look at the attic and refused, on practical grounds to tidy it. The doctor opened his mouth in a smile and pointed out a chair. Assuming that he was offering a seat, the Vagabond sat down. No, the doctor said, I want to know if you can see that chair; this is my own preliminary eyesight test...
...Irish sympathies were strong, he was suspected of being a British agent. Day after day Abbe Dimnet failed to get an audience with the Cardinal, although Monsignor Dineen became slowly "a little less rude, or a little more tired of being rude." Finally the abbe pulled up a chair, motioned Monsignor Dineen to another. "I never," he recalls, "gave anybody such a wigging." After that, he got to see the Cardinal...
When reprints of the Mill & Factory article began to be distributed by Weirton Steel Co. in Weirton and elsewhere last month, one reader who got hopping mad was the NLRB's Chairman J. Warren Madden. Last week in Washington Chair-man Madden signed an NLRB subpoena ordering Editor Barclay to turn over by Monday to a trial examiner in Steubenville, Ohio, across the Ohio River from Weirton, all the material used in preparation of the offending article including ''communications," written or spoken, that had passed between Editor Barclay, ConoverMast Corp. which publishes Mill & Factory, and some...
...Chief" by his associates) still works 70 hours a week. "We have a factory here for finding the truth," he says. It is a highceilinged, barnlike room in a remote corner of Teachers College, with a little office in the back where Dr. Thorndike sits in a high-backed chair at a rolltop desk. The factory is crammed to the ceiling with manila-wrapped bundles containing tests and data. Dr. Thorndike knows what is in every last one of them...
Those who saw the portrait, however, could tell that its subject was a titled man-of-the-world, a sportsman, a connoisseur of literature, art and tobacco. A dinner jacket suit, from which the painter has removed himself, sits upright in a chair beside a small round table, on which there are a signet ring, a pipe and a leather-bound book. Behind the chair, where the room's blue-green walls meet, stand three polo mallets; near them hangs the painting of an Italianate nude...