Word: chair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sitting in an easy chair while he listened to a radio rendition of "You Can't Take That Away from Me," the baggage master, solo guardian of the trunks, appeared to have the situation well in hand...
When the Mayor jubilantly arrived at City Hall to find his office floor covered with a tiger skin presented by big game-hunting Deputy Police Commissioner Harold Fowler, the landslide had begun to seem even more impressive. Fusion was in control not only of the Mayor's chair and the District Attorney's office, where Tammany underlings promptly began clearing out their desks in anticipation of the sharp-eyed Dewey occupation on January 1, but of practically every important city job. Its first majority in the crucial Board of Estimate was an astounding...
...excellent chance to become Ohio's first female victim of the electric chair was by no means Mrs. Hahn's only claim to distinction last week. By the time her trial ended, she had established herself to the jury's satisfaction as one of the most amazingly assiduous heroines in the history of U. S. crime...
...morning last week, crossed the Tiber and rolled through the streets of Rome without attracting any particular attention. When they drew up at the Church of St. John Lateran at the opposite side of the city, attendants lifted Pope Pius XI out of his car, into a sedan chair. The Holy Father had arrived to inspect and inaugurate one of the many new projects his busy mind continually hatches - an Ateneo Romano or Pontifical University, established in the vast church where, in 1929, Mussolini and Cardinal Gasparri signed the Lateran treaties between Italy and the Church...
...carpetless cabin-interior at Belmont, Fla., with a crippled Negro boy propped up in a homemade chair: "Little brother began shriveling up eleven years...