Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...manner of speaking, Frank B. Willis has stepped into the shoes of one President already. When the Senate seat of Warren G. Harding became vacant when its occupant moved to the White House in 1921, Willis was appointed to fill the empty chair. He has held that seat ever since, active in committee work, but lacking the spectacular record of some of his colleagues with Presidential aspirations...
...gifts to the University generaly come with a "Handle Carefully" tag attached to them. Weld Hall may need new plumbing badly; but the generous contributions are all labelled for a new professorial chair, for a rare edition of Shakespeare, for another set of squash courts. These are all worthy projects, and the gifts are received thankfully; still, though man does not live by bread alone, he does need bread; and the plebeian matters of hedge-trimming and board walks require money...
...this constituted premeditated murder decided the jury. Dr. Rongetti will, unless his lawyers can prevent, die in the electric chair, the first to do so in Illinois, which has hitherto despatched its convicted murderers by hanging...
...tells the extraordinary tale of the resurrection of Mrs. Eddy's footman and disciple, Calvin Frye. Frye was found one evening, "unconscious, speechless, eyes closed, apparently breathless, with no pulse and no indication of life. . . ." Frye was placed in a rocking chair. Mrs. Eddy stood over him, in the stuffy room, and said loudly: "Calvin, this cause needs you. Mother needs you and you must not leave. . . ." Frye at this supplication, wriggled and whispered: "I don't want to stay, I want to go." The next morning Frye was about his "mother's" business in the household...
...When a senator or a mayor calls a man a stool pigeon, a snooper, a boodler, a buffoon, a scoundrel, a scalawag or a person weaned on a pickle, he apparently considers himself safe from libel proceedings. And, in legislative chambers, he is. But in a mayor's chair...