Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was Copeland of New York wearing his inevitable red carnation, and McKellar of Tennessee, who became irate because the Chair did not see him when he rose. Underwood of Alabama came and went, playing an unobtrusive part in the front row. Pat Harrison of Mississippi, the great denunciator, remained for the most part silent, save when he rose to deliver one of his thunderbolts across the House. Two rows further back, pince-nez on nose, sat the sententious Ashurst of Arizona, intent on periodically expressing himself with great deliberation, learning and politeness. King of Utah, very 'businesslike, examined every...
...noon the largest Harvard banner in the world was unfurled, hanging ten stories high, on one of the main avenues. In the afternoon several reports were read, President Lowell addressed the alumni, five new clubs were admitted, and the new president of the association was installed in the chair. An informal dinner by classes concluded the day's ceremonies...
Presbyterian Assembly. Himself an ex-Moderator (1913-14), he found the delegates tremendously excited about the election of a Moderator- Chair man and chief executive of the Church. Among the candidates was Clarence Edward Macartney, 44, of Philadelphia, a bitter-ender, a die hard, a Fundamentalist. Dr. Stone was informed that Presbyterian politicians had packed the Assembly with enough votes to elect Macartney. He was told that the final balance of power had been secured when 18 Negroes were secretly pledged to vote for Macartney. Dr. Stone refused to believe a word of this. Then on the eve of election...
BARDELYS THE MAGNIFICENT?Rafael Sabatini ? Houghton ($2.00). More sword-clashings by "the modern Dumas," who here tosses off another breathless tale of hapless heroine rescued by peerless knight amid rebellion, intrigue, mad dashings hither and yon, and all else calculated to lift one bodily out of one's chair...
...warm shadow close behind your chair...