Word: chair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University could conceivably bring a civil action to get back the money it lost, by attaching the King's salary from Collier's. More than 30 years' interest added to the $678.67 might make it worth a try. Maybe endow a small chair in Criminology...
...Petain. He and some 500 other sympathizers of the old man attended a public auction of Petain's books and household effects (no ribbons, no medals), which the government had confiscated after his trial in 1945. At first there was icy silence. Then the Marquis mounted a chair and, waving his cane, he demanded that the sale end at once...
...face, added Eliot, "is worth watching. Wearing a look of slightly quizzical inscrutability . . . behind which one suspects his mental muscles may be contracting for some unexpected pounce, he makes one feel that it would be undesirable, though not actually dangerous, to fall asleep in one's chair...
Four men were nominated for the chair: Burke, Goodman, Charles R. Brynteson '50, and David C. Poskanzer '50. Over two hours of debate ensued in which members of the retiring Council and others explained their opinions on the candidates to the new Council...
This is the sixty-fourth season of the Boston Pops, and perhaps that is why the tables are arranged for parties of five. Even 64 years ago it must have been foolish to go to the Pops without a girl, but then you needed a chair for the chaperone. I object to this archaic tradition, because on Monday, which was Harvard Night, a party of six in front of me spent the first part of the program modernizing the system. They were trying to get a chair which was strapped to an adjoining table into an appropriate relationship with their...