Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story. It all began because The Parliament of Erl was to some extent imaginative. In their ruddy jackets of leather, the twelve members appeared before their stately lord where he sat in a carven chair in his long red room. They desired to be ruled by a magic lord. And though he feared them foolish, he agreed, and sent forth Alvaric, who was his son, to find and wed the King of Elfland's Daughter...
Last week at his home in Kent, he became suddenly ill with asthma. An attack of heart disease followed. Oxygen was administered to him. On Sunday morning, he died resting in his chair after breakfast...
...beautiful, but attractive. Philippe Millet, distinguished French journalist, once remarked of her: "As she enters a room she seems at the first glance to dominate all those present. She receives their homage as a soverign should and has the air of reigning, even when she says 'good day.' The chair on which she sits, perfectly erect, immediately becomes a throne...
...Piel. In 1909 Harvard made him a Doctor of Science. In 1910 Edinburgh, his alma mater, made him Doctor of Laws. He gave largely to the scientific departments of several Universities-to Liverpool and to the University of London. At the latter institution he and his wife endowed a chair in Geology in memory of their son who was killed in the War. His several publications include such treatises as Invertebrate Fauna of the Firth of Forth and other studies which he made while diverting himself aboard his yacht, the Runa. His hobby was the destruction of prejudice against seafood...
...Arthur C. Salter, Finance Chief of the League of Nations; Louis Aubert, onetime Editor of the Revue de Paris; Moritz J. Bonn, Berlin economic expert ; Yusuke Tsurumi, member of the Seiyukai party of Japan ; R. H. Tawney, economic adviser of the British Labor Party; Sir Paul Vinogradoff, of the Chair in Jurisprudence at Oxford ; Paul D. Cravath, lawyer ; Rear Admiral Josseph Strauss; John Spargo, U. S. Socialist...