Word: chair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was no mistaking the curiosity of the inquisitors, just as eager to hear the names of the wealthy tax dodgers whom President Roosevelt castigated in his message to Congress as were the newshawks scribbling at tables below and the audience perched on chair edges...
...years ago, against his better artistic judgment, he installed easel and paper sketching pads to meet modern competition. He has sand-modeled such celebrities as Paderewski, Caruso, Valentino, Gilda Gray, Portraitist William Chase (who told him to "keep it up"). He specializes in monumental masterpieces like "The Empty Chair," "Lion of Lucerne," "Old Skipper's Tale." A special Spagnola attraction is a pair of big sand & cement dragons with light-bulb eyes, open mouths to receive coins which tinkle down through the animal, land on spaces marked "Papa Love Mama," "You're a Bit Tight." Last year Sculptor...
Hillyer follows Copey in Vacant Boylston chair...
...they had seen a longer eclipse of the sun than any other astronomers of modern times. The better to see in the eclipse darkness, they said they would blindfold themselves for half an hour before totality started. For Dr. Stewart the ship's carpenter built a special chair, inclined far back so that he could look nearly vertically overhead in comfort...
Davis, who is an outstanding liberal, has been on the faculty of the School for twelve years. In 1924 he was appointed to the chair of practical philanthropy with the rank of assistant professor, rising in 1927 to the position of associate professor. February of this year the Yale Corporation voted to terminate his connection with the university after a one-year reappointment...