Word: chair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME must be nautical-term-wise in reporting the vantage point from which "The Commander-in-Chief" views Navy sham action, why pick on "No. 2 barbette?" Why not have the President suspended from port-aft-quarter-boom-kingpost in a boatswain's-chair or some other unlikely position...
...Huntington, W. Va., arrested for the murder of Hollis ("Coonhunter") Bowen, 28, cheerful, psychotic Will Stevens, 50, eased himself into a police station chair and told his story...
...victim's mouth foaming, hair burning, flesh giving off sparks. Exception was the Ruth Snyder execution in 1928, when the tabloid New York Daily News attained a U. S. circulation record of 1,556,000 by front-paging a photograph of the husband-killer in the electric chair. That picture, called by Editor & Publisher "the most sensational ever seen in America's press," was obtained by Photographer Tom Howard, who wore a tiny camera strapped to his ankle, had a remote-control cable release in his pocket, gave the film a six-second exposure from his seat twelve...
With the publication of his first contribution in the current issue, Bernard DeVoto '20, lecturer in English and prominent authority on American letters, becomes the editor of "The Easy Chair" of Harper's Magazine...
...successor to Edward Sanford Martin '77 who retires after fifteen years in "The Chair," Do Voto steps into the oldest editorial post in America, begun in 1853 under the editorship of George William Curtis and continued from 1900 to 1920 by William Dean Howells...