Word: chair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...incongruous visitor sat uncomfortably in a straight-backed chair among the followers gathered at Mohandas Gandhi's evening prayers last week. What Gandhi said made His Highness of Faridkot, ruler of 200,000 in the Punjab, more uncomfortable...
...emergency. On opening night Manno dropped his baton into a crack in the floor just as the curtain was going up and couldn't fish it out. He sent a violinist for something to replace it, conducted part of the first act with the rung of a chair. Said he: "I had to lie down for quite a while afterward before my strength came back...
Something for the Boys. While waiting for him to die, and waiting their turn to shout the play-by-play into the hall telephone, souvenir-hunting correspondents helped themselves to everything that was loose. One pried the bullet out of the back of Tojo's chair. A photographer hobbled off with a samurai sword inside his pants leg, but an officer stopped him. "We stood around," Lee recalls, "smoking and talking and making bets on how soon Tojo's small chest would stop heaving." After two hours an Army doctor arrived...
...doctor brusquely asked who had moved Tojo from his chair to a cot, causing blood to gush from his wounds. Several newsmen owned up, a little proudly, to their contribution to the war effort. Nice going, said the doctor. "If that blood hadn't drained out, it would have filled his lungs and drowned him." Instead of killing Tojo, the correspondents had saved him for the war-crime trial which was in its second year last week...
...successor to veteran Editor Percy Cole, another onetime newsman, Tom O'Donoghue will boss a staff of 18 crack (180 words per min. or better) shorthand reporters. They work in pairs-15 minutes at a stretch-in the curtained press gallery above the Speaker's chair. Sometimes Hansard gets things wrong, but it's official, even so, and its bound volumes can be quoted in a court of law. Hansard never identifies a man's party, only his district: he is supposedly representing his entire constituency. When Emanuel Shinwell slapped Commander Bower in 1938 for saying...