Word: chair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Franklin and Eleanor were a gay and carefree couple. Franklin went to law school, Eleanor started having babies. The family spent many joyful summers at Campobello, New Brunswick. There Franklin once walked in his sleep, an incident which Eleanor described to Mama: "He suddenly leaped up, turned over a chair and started to open the shutters. I grabbed his pyjama tails and asked what he wanted and received this surprising answer: 'I must get it, it is very rare, the only one and a most precious book.' After some persuasion he returned to bed, very angry with...
...admiration for Mrs. Marie Baker, who for 18 years had cooked, washed and ironed clothes, and raised a family of four while confined to a wheel chair by infantile paralysis, her Harrisonville, Mo. neighbors chipped in, bought her a new electrically operated wheel chair at a cost...
Miss Moore was about to sit down with the Harry Levins when Mr. Mathiessen pointed to a chair on the platform. She took it. "I don't have to introduce Marianne Moore to Harvard, but I would like to introduce Harvard to Marianne Moore," began Mr. Mathiessen. He made references to her editing the literary magazine "Dial" and then said something about how gratified he was to see so many people present and that he was certain Miss Moore's announced appearance had been responsible for "our recent inhabitant of the Yard, the owl." He said he only regretted that...
...Mathiessen leaned forward in his chair, uncertainly. She had only been talking twenty minutes. Miss Moore then said, "That's all," and gave a downward affirmative jerk of her head. People began to applaud and she 'seemed a little flustered. She gathered up her little slips of paper and the visit was over...
...Radcliffe and Harvard history majors have received invitations to installation exercises honoring Miss Helen Maud Cam, Harvard's first woman professor. Friday afternoon in Agassiz Theater. Miss Cam holds the Samuel Zemurray Jr. and Doris Zemurray Stone Chair in History...