Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thank God, they couldn't put me in the electric chair. I dare say Mr. Davis would like to if he could. Poor little me, why did they consider me a dangerous woman...
...education board, was an insurance actuary and in 1853 founded the U. S. Trust Co. President Lincoln appointed him Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in 1864. Princeton (then College of New Jersey) secured him as a trustee four years later. In October, 1910, when Woodrow Wilson resigned his presidential chair at Princeton to become Governor of New Jersey, Mr. Stewart as senior trustee was called upon to serve as president pro tempore until the inauguration of Dr. Hibben in January, 1912. Known as Wall Street's oldest financier (he relinquished the presidency of the U. S. Trust Co. 24 years...
...itself for it makes up for any deficiencies of setting. But where atmosphere and setting are sufficiently powerful to reach the imagination of the audience, then it is better to tell the tale without flourishes. "Moana" gives each person in the audience a chance to slip down in his chair and dream his own dreams, with Polynesia unrolling a fairy land before his eyes...
...Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry is uniquely designed to stimulate culture. By the terms of Mr. Still man's bequest, the incumbent of the chair must be a man of international reputation, whom Harvard in all probability could not otherwise secure. Under the broad definition of poetry the new professorship makes provision for men of ability in the cultural arts of music, painting, sculpture, and architecture as well as in the rhythms of language. Professor Murray of Oxford, an authority on the Greek drama, is of the type which the chair was designed to attract...
...When Abraham Lincoln, with a bullet in his head, crumpled slow ly into his chair in Ford's Theatre one April night, three men carried him across the street to a little house opposite. It was the house of William Peterson, a tailor. The President lay there all night, and all night his blood seeped into the square feather pillow under his head...