Word: chair
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Ensconced in the high-backed chair on the dais, blinking down on excited Senators, Barkley remarked: "I feel like the man who was being ridden out of town on a rail. Someone asked him how he felt. He said if it weren't for the honor of the thing, he'd just as soon walk." He applied himself then to the South's ingenious entanglement, which was hard going even for sea lawyers...
...minutes later, they found Emory Holt's body sprawled over a chair, a 9-mm. Luger automatic still gripped in his hand. His wife's body was stretched out on the sofa. Beside her sat the body of the man who had been her lover. The only sound came from the telephone. Still off its hook, it buzzed angrily and insistently...
...that morning, after long questioning, Tapper Ryan asked permission to use a ladies' washroom near the mayor's office. Leaving his hat and coat on a chair, the tap expert beat it out a back window of City Hall and got clean away. While the cops bayed after him, Mayor O'Dwyer brought in the "someone" named by Tapper Ryan. This turned out to be a lawyer and private eye named John Broady, who, as it happens, works for none other than do-gooder Clendenin John Ryan and years before had gathered evidence for Ryan...
Settling himself to the chair he filled his pen and carefully lettered "Page One" on the upper let corner and "First" on the upper right, but no more, for another possibility crossed his mind. What if he should work through lunch? He set the alarm for noon and folded it under his pillow, then returned to the desk. "First Draft" he finished. He should note the time he started; getting out of his chair, he uncovered the alarm clock and noted the time, wound it tight and recovered it. Filling in the time, Vag thought a footnote was needed...
...departments will make up the new division at first Emory L. Chaffee, Rumford Professor of Physics and Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics will chair the Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Physics, while Albert Haertlein '16, Gordon McKay Professor of Civil Engineering, heads the Department of Engineering