Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Abraham Lincoln, President Hoover has special reverence. Lincoln's oldtime cabinet room in the southeast corner of the second floor of the White House, he has changed from a guest chamber to a study. From the attic has been brought a dusty old chair which the President believes originally stood there...
...Harry Elstner Talbott, dowager of Dayton, Ohio, energetic patroness-manager of Dayton's famed Westminster Choir, now on European concert tour ,TIME, March 25), arose from her chair ast week in Prague to reply to a toast which Prague Mayor Baxa had drunk to he choir in clear Czechoslovakian wine. Said she: "We are patriotic Americans. We don't drink, but thank you just the same." The Westminster Choir-singers are not supposed to use tobacco, either...
...fact, cleverly casts suspicion on them all, tells them that certain postprandial actions will reveal the murderer. The ladies then retire. Over their wine, the men talk of poisons. There is a sudden feminine scream. The men rush out. The host quaffs his liqueur, slumps in his chair, dead...
...dignity, and calm, opening and closing his eyes and his jack-knife; uttering meanwhile detached remarks, wise, gruff, biting, yet seldom lacking a kernal of kindness, till bedtime came, nine o'clock, and he was gone, the gifts--if thanks were feared--left in a chair by the door...
...Industry in the position of founder. From each of the 48 states, one chemistry student will be chosen annually to go to Johns Hopkins, to study mathematics, physics, English and chemistry (inorganic, organic, physical, analytical) under Professor Neil Elbridge Gordon, recently appointed to the University's new Chair of Chemistry. Students may leave their universities for Johns Hopkins in their sophomore, junior or senior years. Their selection will depend upon state committees of chemical companies and educators, and upon their "health, ability to cooperate, creative ability, intellectual honesty, persistency, faculty of observation, enthusiasm, initiative, reliability, conduct, morality, scholarship...