Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...everyone knows, Luther at one time occupied the chair of philosophy of the University of Wittenberg; he was a master and a doctor; he was a writer and thinker of great political and religious consequence...
Towards the end of his New Jersey visit, he had said: "It is not, and should not be, a campaign based on personalities." Prior to that he had forsworn Intolerance, in his speech of acceptance. He left to Chair- man Work a further repudiation of Whispering. The way his mind was working was revealed by two things he said to some Marylanders who came to see him: "Membership in a political organization is no disgrace," and, "Our campaign is based upon our issues. It is not a campaign of opposition. It is a campaign in favor of the issues...
...agonies, glaring, and thumping the furniture with their heavy hands. A feeble-minded virgin, seeing a young lieutenant looking at the rings in a jeweler's window, became enamored. When she sat next him in church, she regarded this as a marriage ceremony. When he occupied an adjoining chair at the opera, she called it a consummation. But when someone came down the passage past her door that night, she thought something more would be in order; so she grabbed a man who turned out to be, not her lieutenant, but the butcher's boy, creeping...
...only lady in the history of America who ever walked across the Mohave Desert in an evening frock and French heel shoes, had her very, very golden hair meticulously marcelled, dressed herself up like a Christmas tree, fluttered into the reception room, plumped herself down into an over-stuffed chair (which groaned slightly) and expressed some very favorable opinions of the Good Lord and Herbert Hoover...
...Orcoma paused at the Spanish harbor of Santander, Alfonso XIII, King of Spain, came aboard, exchanged greetings with the sick secretary who was barely able to rise from his bed chair...