Word: chair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carving shows the lion of Immanuel College holding John Harvard's shield, continental troops in front of Massachusetts Hall, and John Harvard seated in his chair with a suggestive canine appendage. There is also a representation of the first intercollegiate boat race, rowed by Harvard, Yale, and Trinity...
From a bootblack chair at Chicago's University Club, Vice President Frederick Lee McNally of Rand, McNally & Co. (books, atlases) toppled, cracked his skull. While his wife was visiting him in a hospital, burglars stripped their apartment of jewelry, cash and clothing worth...
...bastard son of King Charles II and the Duchess of Portsmouth; at Goodwood, England. Lord of 250,000 acres (including famed Goodwood race track and a forest in which, traditionally, no birds lived), he was crippled by spinal meningitis during the War, got about in a nifty wheel chair...
Ochs bequeathed the management of his estate to his only daughter, son-in-law, and nephew, it remained only for the Times directors to elevate Son-in-law Sulzberger to the vacant presidential chair...
Aside from the fact that the routine succession of publisher's title called for no fuss & fury in the Times offices. Arthur Hays Sulzberger would be the last man to kick up a fuss. He did not even move into his father-in-law's vacant chair at council table, but retained his customary seat beside Editor Rollo Ogden. There, every noon, publisher, editors and managers meet for the day's mulling of policy. Afterward the biggest wigs adjourn to the dining room upstairs, usually with a guest who may be a Cabinet officer, Brain Truster, diplomat...