Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...took limousine for Newfield, Pelton, High Spen and Chopfield?the latter called "Little Moscow" and possessing a Lenin Street crossed by a Trotzky Street. In High Spen a few ragged young women cheerily called, "Good luck, Prince!" and there a certain Mrs. Ferrage dusted off a chair for the royal guest and called her daughter, saying, "Daughter, this is the Prince of Wales. Prince, this is my daughter...
...reorganization of the government, correspondents were regaled with hair-raising disclosures of former graft, plus assurances that wholesale padding of ministerial payrolls has ceased. There are said to have been some 500 government employes in the capital who never had a desk or a chair, and appeared at their offices only on payday. This state of affairs was said to have existed for decades, and through the prime ministry of Monsignor Anton Koroshetz (TIME, Jan. 14), who is now Minister of Transports and Railways...
...Davidson statue conveys all this. It represents the Senator anxiously leaning forward in his chair, gripping the arms, as though about to leap to his feet with a challenge...
Engaged. Allene Tew Burchard of Manhattan, widow of onetime vice chair man Anson Wood Burchard of General Electric Co.; to Prince Henry XXXIII of Reuss, widower of Princess Victoria Margarette of Hohenzollern. Until 1918, the House of Reuss ruled over two principalities on the Polish frontier of Germany. For many centuries all Reuss princes have been named Henry. At the end of every 100 years, the numbering begins at I again...
...letters written by Washington himself as far as I know, the presence of a large number written by his sister, Betty Washington Lewis, makes it very possible that a new light will be thrown on Washington's business transactions and private life." The famous historian settled back in his chair and continued. "You know Washington was the wealthiest man in America in his day. He was a shrewd business man, an analytic bookkeeper, and the most consistent buyer of real estate in the country. During the Revolutionary War, when his brother-in-law. Fielding Lewis, went bankrupt making guns...