Word: chair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shipment, to the London Zoo last year, brought protests in the House of Lords. Borne out of the hills in a sedan chair, the panda was flown from Calcutta and thence to London-while 11,000 Britons waited for air transport...
Canada's good neighbor, Senator Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg of Michigan, is worried about a vacant chair. For 37 years, ever since the Pan American Union moved into its marble-and-mahogany palace on Washington's 17th Street, 21 chairs (one for each of the American republics) have stood around the board of governors' table. In the basement, under wraps, is a 22nd chair, identical with the others except that on its high back are carved the name and arms of Canada...
...been empty long enough," cried Vandenberg last week at a Pan American Day celebration in Washington. ". . . By every rule of righteousness [Canada] is eligible to this association. ... I would welcome the final and total New World unity which will be nobly dramatized when the 22nd chair is filled and our continental brotherhood is complete from the Arctic Circle to Cape Horn...
After a repairman discovered that the pinnacle from which he swung his boat-swain's chair was practically hanging on air, the authorities decided that the ornamentation should be taken down, and the old roofing was replaced by a duration substitute...
...April 14). All of these had happened before the spring season began. Said the New York Times's Columnist Arthur Daley: "The Lip is in a comparable position to the chap hauled into traffic court for driving through a red light and then being sentenced to the electric chair. If this is the Chandler type of justice, then the club owners could make a good investment for themselves by buying up the remainder of his [$250,000] contract...