Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Copley--"The Creaking Chair...
Copley--"The Creaking Chair...
Copley--"The Creaking Chair" at 8.20. "As He Thinketh...
...spite of the reforms in dress and other customs which have been forced upon that land, it remains true to its tradition, the tradition of the East. Only recently a new proof of this was brought to light when some Turkish schoolchildren put a tack in the teacher's chair. Of course, they had been led by an infiltration of western ideas to believe that such a joke would so pain the teacher as to amuse the class. They reckoned not upon the Oriental influences that were to work upon that tack...
Copley--"The Creaking Chair" at 8.20 "As He Thinketh...