Word: chair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Laski, always the lecturer, delivered a long harangue in answer to one question. Lord Chief Justice Goddard, who had sunk back in his chair, bored but still listening, sat bolt upright to translate to the jury. "The answer," he said, "is 'yes;' " and leaned back again...
...front cover there is a colored photograph of the usual elegant female, standing on a chair while a grey-haired, spectacled, crushed-looking man in shirtsleeves kneels at her feet, doing something to the edge of her skirt. If one looks closely one finds that actually he is about to take a measurement with a yardstick. But to a casual glance he looks as though he were kissing the hem of the woman's garment-not a bad symbolical picture of American civilization, or at least of one important side...
Dick waited patiently for the cats to settle down. He was holding a buggy whip and a broom handle, and he had a kitchen chair in case one of them got tough and jumped him. A pitchfork might have been better, but these were his cats (and his life's investment) and he didn't want to scar them. He called to Fay Maloney, his assistant: "Looks like an easy deal...
...hits: Stardust (which has earned Carmichael more than $250,000), Lazybones, Rockin' Chair, Two Sleepy People, Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief. His latest, Old Buttermilk Sky, last week was No. 6 on the Hit Parade...
...spoke Italian, Spanish, German and French as well as English. When he was not reading Blackstone or walking in his orange grove, he was likely to be sitting, in a specially constructed chair, neck-deep in the waters of the Matanzas River, considering the landscape and the past. "I get up at sunrise. I give the orders of the day to my overseer and make the rounds of my lands. . . . Late in the afternoon I take another horseback ride. . . . Once in a fortnight I go to town to buy what I need," he wrote. "From time to time my friends...