Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...While habitues whispered that the Marchesa's Italian husband had recently deserted her and that she was acting as her sister's business manager, she arose, strolled over to the orchestra and tipped the leader heavily to play an Italian Fascist song. Stepping from the seat of a gilt chair to the top of a table, she led the two Italian actors in a cheer for Mussolini...
...Salem, Mass., where they used to immerse witches, sorcerers and other creatures of the evil one, local Republicans last week cried "Aroint! ye rump-fed chair-thieves", announcing that those Republicans who carried off the chair wherein President Coolidge rested his limbs last summer when he attended their outing at Lake Attitash would be disciplined by not being invited to a coming celebration...
...practice at the bar to enter the State Department. He has several times been Assistant Secretary of State, several times represented the U. S. in diplomatic conferences. But his service in the State Department has been disjointed. When he was only 31 (he is now 65) he accepted the chair of International Law and Diplomacy at Columbia University?the first chair of its kind in the country. He was made a judge of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague in 1913, a judge of the World Court in 1921. As an authority on international law and diplomacy...
...university training . . . an all round athlete, and yet a churchman; a scholar and yet a very graceful and sophisticated man of the world." Groton is his life-work as St. Mark's is Dr. Thayer's. The latter, "an accomplished churchman and a successful and tactful manager," took his chair...
...Washington John James Tigert, U. S. Commissioner of Education, has a commodious office, a magnificent desk, a most comfortable desk chair. Some idea of how much enjoyment he gets out of these furnishings was gained last week from his published annual report. This showed that, during 1925, he had traveled 48,444 miles, spent 137 days "in the field" (including Sundays), conducted four national education conferences, addressed 25 national associations, three regional associations, 12 state associations; officially visited three state education departments; visited and addressed 15 colleges and universities, six summer schools, three high schools; made five commencement addresses...