Word: chair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eunuchs, which is still flourishing," Baron Aloisi, Italian representative at Geneva, condemns (TIME, Sept. 16) the Ethiopians as a barbarous and uncivilized race-what about the vaunted civilization of the Italians, who, for profit and gain during the centuries before the accession of Leo XIII to the Papal Chair, in 1878, castrated 3,500 Italian boys annually? Many died from the horrible operation; but the castrati, who survived and whose voices acquired the proper and desired timbre, were trained to be sold as sopranos, not only for the choruses in theatres, but also, strange to state, for the choirs...
...sidelight on the situation, it was found upon investigation that Huppuch was unassisted in the capture of the thief, and that no patrolman entered the case until after the culprit was thoroughly subdued. While Huppuch was studying in his room, he noticed the door knob turn. Leaping from his chair, he tore open the door and found an individual looking for Moseley. He was recognized as a thief and captured by Huppuch, in the proccus dropping a pair of Callaway's seeks from his pockets...
...student through social and financial troubles. Roscoe Pound's day begins at 6:30 a. m., ends at midnight. Often he spends most of it inside his walnut horseshoe desk which is lined with some 300 books. When he wants one he spins around in his swivel chair, gets it at first grasp, buries his nose in it to overcome extreme myopia. When callers come he pushes up his eyeshade, chuckles merrily. The Harvard Lampoon once ran a picture of a pansy whose petals resembled unmistakably the chubby cheeks, droopy mustache and twinkly eyes of the law dean...
While Huppuch was studying in his room, he noticed the door knob turn. He leaped from his chair and tore open the door to find a somewhat strange individual asking for Frederick. R. Moseley, Jr. '36, who at that moment was the cynosure of some 15,000 pairs of eyes on Soldiers Field...
...Hoagy had an orchestra, too. This is a matter of pride to Kappa Sigma, the fraternity Carmichael joined soon after he entered the University of Indian in 1920. There, in the famous Indiana Book Nook, Hoagy used to make his classmates weep as he played the original Old Rocking Chair, so sad a composition that his publishers made him tone its tragic lyrics down...