Word: chair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...officiating of Saturday's contest only aided and abetted the already dubious ethics of the Cadets. One of these hawk-eyed aces, who goes under the improbable name of Phillip E. Genthner, should be spending his Saturday afternoons at home in an easy chair lisetning ever a radio rather than taking the taxpayer's money to act as lineman for the U.S. Army...
...pointed to a corner of the Llandudno Grand Hotel's lounge, where Leopold Amery sat, sparrowlike, on the edge of a big easy chair, munching a cracker and talking to a circle of followers. In the opposite corner sprawled Anthony Eden, expounding his viewpoint to his own group of disciples. Both had to shout to be heard above the squeaky strains of a teatime violin, piano and cello...
...thank the Saturday Evening Post's Editor Ben Hibbs for much of its good hunting. Four years ago when the magazine was shopping for a new editor, Hibbs recommended husky Theodore Resting of the Country Gentleman staff who was equally at home in an editor's chair or the saddle...
...smokes, because Freeman objects to the lingering odor (he dropped smoking years ago when he found that the buying, lighting, smoking and crushing out of cigarettes, "wasted" 8½ hours a week). Freeman also has a newspaperman's dislike of office whistlers. He will bolt from his chair, at the cost of precious seconds, to bawl out a whistling copy...
...center will contain both single and double rooms. The singles will be 9 by 13 fact and equipped with desk, desk-chair, couch-bed, dresser closet and bookshelf. The doubles will be 18 by 13 feet, and will be designed so that they can be diviled by a curtain for privacy...