Word: chair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tragedy of History." Then, while Hiss took a seat among the reporters, the committee summoned Chambers to the witness chair. What had Chambers thought of Hiss's testimony? Said Chambers: "Mr. Hiss is lying." Had he ever been in a mental hospital? "I have never been treated for a mental illness-period...
...room, like any small hotel room, was hot. The man pulled the varnished hotel chair up to the table, pulled out a sheet of stationery, and wrote...
...Chairs. Nobody could quarrel with Billy's replacements, if they could be had. "To the left of the chairman sits Arturo Toscanini . . . [then] Bernard M. Baruch ... as financial adviser . . . Around the big mahogany table are opera experts like [the Berkshire Festival's] Boris Goldovsky and [Manhattan's City Opera boss] Laszlo Halasz, theater men like Oscar Hammerstein II and Robert Edmond Jones." Others: Stage Directors Elia Kazan, Jose Ferrer, Rouben Mamoulian; Choreographers Agnes de Mille, Antony Tudor, Jerome Robbins. "Who would sit in the 37th [he meant the 38th] chair...
...prelates worked five weeks in private with a businesslike disregard for comfort or show. With brief intermissions for communal lunch and tea, they met in the bomb-scarred Great Hall of Lambeth Palace, the Archbishop of Canterbury's London residence. They sat on hard wooden chairs (former conferences used comfort able armchairs and each bishop took home his chair as a memento). "There has nev er," commented the Manchester Guardian, "been a Lambeth Conference so free from princely affectation." "A Fearless Witness." "Marxian Communism ," the conferees declared, "is con trary to Christian faith and practice, for it denies...
...Clemente Orozco had labored five months on his new mural-and never laid a brush on it. The owlish Mexican master spent his evenings hunched in a kitchen chair in his studio, under a single powerful lamp, drawing pictures. Mornings he would go out to the brand-new government normal school to work, by remote control, on the painting itself...