Word: chair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fortress, ten miles offshore in the Bay of Biscay, the 90-year-old ex-hero of Verdun is still as crusty as ever. In rugged health he spends his days pondering in justice in a large, whitewashed cell furnished with a metal army cot, a dresser, a wooden chair, a kerosene lamp and two clothes presses. Beneath his one barred window is a small round hole which the Marshal is convinced is a peephole. Last month Pétain's jailer added a wicker lounge chair to the meager furnishings, but the prisoner refuses...
...great dramatic poetry is verbal, and the bottom of this play's new success was that Andre Gide had kept the greatness of great words in a new language. Samples: ¶ O that this too, too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew! (Chair trap massive, Oh! Si tu pouvais fondre, T'evaporer, te resoudre en rosee...
...Sure we kicked 'em off," snorted Producer John Reddy. His charge: the day before the Crawfords were to be married on Bride & Groom, they celebrated their engagement on a rival (CBS) show called Your Hope Chest, told their whole love story on the air, collected a four-chair dinette set, four pairs of nylons, two 17-jewel wrist watches, a woman's suit, two five-ply tires, a set of luggage, an electric iron, a man's shaving kit, a grill and toaster set, a waffle iron, a case of frozen peas and a case of corn...
Leavell, who fills the chair of Public Health practice which the death of Dr. Edward G. Huber last July left vacant, held, just prior to his Rockefeller post, a deputy directorship of health in the European office of UNRRA. Snyder, to occupy a chair of Public Health Bacteriology, is noted in medical circles for his typhus-fever bug field investigations, which have carried him into remote corners of Mexico and Spain. Most recently he served the United States Army Typhus Commission on special assignments in the Middle East and Italy...
...feel we have about the best buy in the hotel," say Frederick Drayton '46 (History) and his wife Edith. Almost paradoxically, each couple seems to feel it ha the "best buy," and proceeds to go about making the most of the meager furniture which is provided--two chairs, a "sofa" and a table for the living room; a chair, bed or beds, and chest of drawers for the bedroom. Rooms on the first three floors of the Brunswick's five are a stately type, set off with bay windows overlooking Boylston Street for Copley Square, and fireplaces which comprise 19th...