Word: chair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...family and he married the daughter of a former President. He was educated in a Jesuit school, went to Paris to complete his education, traveled much in Europe, went home to be trained in the anti-U. S. atmosphere of Argentine diplomatic circles. He endowed and sat in a chair of labor legislation at the University of Buenos Aires. In 1932, when General Agustin P. Justo became President after two years of revolutionary government, Dr. Saavedra became Foreign Minister...
...plantation to work out 30-day sentences and $25 fines. The Negroes were enslaved, it was charged, because Peacher was short of labor due to a strike of cotton choppers in the vicinity. Best Government witness was Winfield Anderson, cowering 51-year-old Negro who sat in the witness chair with his paralyzed right arm hanging limp at his side. Witness Anderson testified that he was sitting on the front porch of his home, which he owns, when "De Law" accosted him, asked him where he worked. Anderson replied that he did not work, but lived on $10 a week...
Find greater ease in my big green chair, my feet on the bed. I browse in the plays, hunting for the songs therein. They are my delight...
...fall asleep in the big green chair and come dreams of springtime and zephyrs and lilacs and green pastures and awake cramped and sore but Madame has abandoned her seige for the nonce and my head is lighter. And up to call for my stiff-front shirt from the launderer, and to Kirkland House tonight to see John Gay there enacted his play "Three Hours After Marriage...
...desk is a richly-bound volume of letters written on the occasion of the firm's 80th anniversary by the nation's great. Visitors are allowed to thumb through the volume and, if themselves distinguished, are occasionally invited to sit in the Founder's own chair. Generations of dead Talcotts gaze from their portraits on the walls of the office of President J. (for James) Frederick Talcott, the founder's son, who is now 70. His son, James Talcott Jr., is first vice president and the ninth in direct descent from the Worshipful John Talcott...