Word: chair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...charity) for the ladies they wished to escort during the impending quest. Some of the ladies objected; after a democratic vote, the majority went along with the auction plan. So Master-of-Ceremonies Baron Stanley of Alderley (he's terribly good at this sort of thing) mounted a chair in the sitting room. Cried he: "Now, who wants Loelia?" (the recently divorced Duchess of Westminster). Bidding was sluggish, and the ex-Duchess finally went for seven guineas. Blonde Princess Ali Khan, the Aga Khan's daughter-in-law, did better at a reported 15 guineas. Randolph Churchill...
...Lincoln, slumped comfortably in "a Roman chair, embodies the best in Daniel French's art. Despite its size, the statue looks human enough to be a real person-somehow marbleized. The quiet hands rest loosely, and inappropriately, on chair arms ornamented with bundled rods in bas-relief: symbols of Rome's imperial power. The dramatic spotlighting, which the sculptor fiddled with for seven years after his Lincoln was installed, lends mystery to what is essentially a competent, straightforward portrait; Daniel was never one to take liberties with his subjects. "He was all for tradition and a grave, measured...
...came to see whether these two of our children could be guilty of such a crime and if so were we, as a civilization, guilty too. Or to see if some touchstone of truth guards and protects their very youth. . . . But the first thing that freezes you in your chair ... is that there is no youth in them...
...American children chew too much gum when they come to school. It isn't the gum-it is what the gum-chewing signifies. Gum-chewing in school is like a kid studying in an easy chair alongside the radio. . . . And cigarets. It is pitiful to go to some schools and see the children whip out packs of cigarets as they leave the building...
...There is more to be taught than the three Rs. There is respect, dignity, discipline, responsibilities, and manners. But," said Mr. Little sternly, rocking back & forth in his parlor chair, "they are not being taught. Give the children more discipline in the home and they would have more in the school. Confused students are being turned out into a confused world...