Word: chair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Judge Goldsborough wiped his glasses, hooked them back on his nose, rocked ruminatively back & forth on his red-leather chair. Then he ruled that Lewis and the United Mine Workers, notwithstanding, were in contempt of court. Lewis would return the next day, the judge ordered, to receive his sentence...
WASHINGTON, December 13 -- The Senate inqquiry into Senator Theodore G. Bilbo's dealings with war contractors recessed in tumult today when former Representative Ross Collins of Mississippi knocked a witness out of his chair and rained kicks and blows upon...
Calling Gandy a "damn liar," Collins rushed. He upset the witness chair. Gandy sprawled on the floor and Collins began pounding and kicking...
...Victor Moore. Nor are they cheered to the point of unharnessing two dollars to listen to a short-haired female with a ereased face speak several languages miserably in a baroque drama by a rococco Slovene mystic. Shakespeare and Jonson may seem hackneyed to the man whose camp-chair bears the words "Director," but they are being done weekly in the classroom with great success. And in the whole range of drama from Aeschylus to O'Neill are plays that will make theater-going something other than a trial by ordeal...
...holes up at Miss Jenny's maison de joie, marries Polly Peachum--the daughter of a humorously crooked politician, and beguiles the keys to his cell door from the jailer's daughter--all in order to avoid the inevitable ending which awaits him in the arms of the electric chair...