Word: chair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dinner remained in the oven uneaten. Subsequent examination showed that Death came about 11 p. m. but no one arrived until early morning. Then the housekeeper shuffled in to get the Mayor's breakfast and at first only thought he had dozed off in his easy chair near the warm stove and slept the night...
...issue you use the word "logorrheic"-I nearly fell off the chair when I read it, hurried to my Oxford Dictionary (last edition) but it wasn't listed. This morning I couldn't find it in the office dictionary and now I am bothered. Where did you get it and what does it mean? MAURICE AGGELER...
Twelve hundred Kentuckians packed the New Castle courtroom for the inquest. First witness called was General Denhardt. Marching to the chair, he announced in a loud, clear voice that he declined to testify "on advice of counsel over my protest." Up from the buzzing crowd stepped a sheriff, clapped a hand on the bald and portly officer's shoulder, said: "General Denhardt, I have a warrant for your arrest...
...house. Brother Edgar painted an excellent view of his relatives during office hours, which hung last week in Philadelphia's exhibition. Uncle Michel in his silk hat and frock coat sits in the foreground peering at a sample of cotton. Behind him brother René is sprawled in chair reading a newspaper, while customers finger samples and clerks tot up books. When the picture was painted, Louisiana had a Negro Acting Governor, P. B. Pinchback. The director of the little provincial museum at Pau in Southern France snapped up the cotton market picture for $200 when it was exhibited...
...bleakly. Jim Bridges got out of his chair, lit the oil lamp and sat down again. At 6:30 Pearl Bridges gave birth to a boy, at 6:32 to a girl, at 6:34 to a girl, at 6:36 to a girl. Jim Bridges fainted...