Word: chair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that afternoon was about as satisfactory as any Bob Reynolds had had in his twelve years in the Senate. He bowed low to the chair and to Senator McKellar, saying: "Mr. President, I am really indebted to the Senator from Tennessee for bringing this matter...
McIlwain was the Pulitzer Prize winner in American History for 1924 and is a world-famous authority on political theory. A graduate of Princeton in 1894, he has held the Eaton chair at Harvard since 1927. His best-known books are "The High Court of Parliament and Its Supremacy," "The American Revolution: A Constitutional Interpretation," "Constitutionalism, Ancient and Modern," "Constitutionalism and the Changing World," and "The Growth of Political Thought in the West from the Greeks to the End of the Middle Ages...
...President likes to travel fast, even has his valet push his wheel chair rapidly. He is disconcerting, quick, and a mild tyrant in social affairs; he invents complicated variations of poker, which he almost invariably wins and which in consequence he is the only one who enjoys playing. But if the other players protest he good-naturedly returns to the rules. He goes to the movies at the White House about every fortnight, sits in the front row, and comments aloud about the picture. If he did the same thing in a public theater, it "would cause people...
...quite in top form, still on his game. "Polite and assured, full of seasoned stamina and lively as a cricket, he seems still quite ready to enjoy a series of new and even-more-exciting crises. Sitting with a caller in his upstairs study he sometimes pushes his freewheeling chair back from his cluttered desk and sits still for a minute chewing reflectively on the tip of his cigaret holder. At such moments the deep lines in Roosevelt's face suggest that he is listening to some sound that pleases him-as though the subdued hum of the household...
Frost is spending the summer on his farm in Vermont. An Associate of Adams House, he holds a chair at Dartmouth...