Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much at noon. Look out--sorry...Well, why the hell don't you look where you're going? Oh...Jees, look at my sleeve. Chocolate milk all over it. Sure, I do. The litle shrimp sits in front of me in French. I'll joggle his chair, absentminded, tomorrow. Yeh, we got an exam. You can drive a guy nuts that way. You can drive a guy--sure, it does. Just scrape...
...wing at a quick, almost jaunty, pace. The Chief was slower, measured his stride more carefully. Once inside Mr. Coolidge walked around to the President's room, just off the Senate lobby, put his silk hat down on the green felt table top, sat down in an arm chair, signed many bills. His Cabinet stood about him, eager to be of last-minute assistance. When he had finished he motioned shut the ponderous doors and lighted a cigar...
...Adams of Boston fits the sea. sentimentally, as snugly as a well-made yachting cap in a stiff breeze. But to pilot the International Cup Defender Resolute to victory, as Mr. Adams did do in 1920, and to guide the destiny of the U. S. Navy from a swivel chair in Washington, as Mr. Adams will do, are two wide-apart things...
...leave of absence which permitted him to go to London for three years was reluctantly given by the University, and with the hope and expectation that the end of those three years would see him back again. Some Englishmen had questioned the right of an American to hold the chair in the London School of Economics which had been held by Edwin Cannan, but Professor Young so won all English economists that he was elected president of the Economic Section of the British Association...
...elevator is sometimes called Aufzug (Uptrain) in Germany, more often Fahrsthl (Travel-chair), but whatever it is called, it is always exclusive. Apartment house elevators are few and far between. Service elevators are unknown. Such lifts as there are are proudly marked "Nur für Herrschaften"-"For Gentry Only!" It is always understood, and generally written in the lease, that no messengers, delivery boys, or servants may ride in the lift except when the servant is accompanied by the employer or the employer's dog, cat, etc. That has been the rule, but last week...