Word: chair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wisconsin's common folk, with an air of affectionate proprietorship, called him "the old man." They liked to think of the big, rumpled man in the governor's chair, puffing his pipe, nibbling cheese, his voice rumbling, his massive head wagging like an amiable St. Bernard's. Some might disagree with his basically conservative Republicanism. But everyone agreed that Governor Walter Samuel Goodland was honest to the point of truculence. He was also, at 84, the oldest state governor in the nation's history...
...defense of Britain's quitting India. Cripps turned on Churchill, icily asked him to "cease talking so loudly." Sir Stafford suffered another interruption. Tory Robert Boothby broke in: "Is it in order for an honorable member to peel and eat an orange during the debate?" Solemnly the Chair ruled: "In this chamber one does not smoke, one does not chew gum, one does not eat chocolate and sweets, and one should not peel and eat an orange in this chamber, either...
...chamber, after talking with four boys (one 16, two 17, one 19) who are soon to die there, the sheriff speaks with the tickled-pink fascination of a kid with a new erector set: "This is where we're going to execute them. . . . Over here is where the chair will be. We used to hang them. The noose came down here and the ropes were tied to the bars on this window here. Then we cut this trap in the floor here, and we dropped them below and they carried the bodies away. That made it neater...
With the naming of Kelleher to the new chair, the University adds new recognition to the importance of modern Irish literature and history. His appointment will strengthen the teaching of modern Irish literature written in English...
...year old professor came to Harvard in 1940 as a Junior Fellow. Born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, he graduated from Dartmouth College in 1939. His appointment to the chair of Modern Irish History and Literature is the second professorship to be announced by the University in a week...