Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Charles Augustus Lindbergh entered the reception hall. The crowd of stiffly dressed, excited diplomats caught their breaths as President Miguel Paz Barahona motioned him to the presidential chair. The U. S. youth, unsurprised, sat gravely down. Speeches. Hondurans coined for him a new nickname, "The Marvel Child." He was presented with a wafer thin watch hidden inside a U. S. $20 gold piece. In the street an unidentified citizen rushed excitedly through his escort, seized him firmly; lifted him high; screaming "The greatest man on earth." Wnen native maidens rushed forward at Toncontin Field the U. S. youth...
...buyers by the fourth day's display that they furnished almost $500,000 for the remaining pieces in the Salomon Collection; in the first three days they had paid altogether a little less than $200,000. Mrs. Elisha Walker, Manhattan social bigwig, successfully proffered $44,000 for six tapestried chairs and a sofa that had been made, a long time ago, for Queen Marie Antoinette of France. A little Watteau, which showed a pale libidinous god making love to a plump nymph, went to a dealer for $12,500. A portrait by Fragonard of the Chevalier de Billaut...
Last week, in Lake Forest, Ill., an old man was having his breakfast. Suddenly, he put his napkin down on the table; before the servant could reach him, he had fallen to the floor across the arm of his chair. An hour or two later, the newspapers in Chicago had headlines saying that Marvin Hughitt, Finance Chairman of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad, had suffered a paralytic stroke. The morning after the old man had been carried upstairs from his breakfast table, the newspapers published extra editions to say that Marvin Hughitt had died, without regaining consciousness. Some days later every...
...night with the CRIMSON, after he had spoken to a capacity audience at ford Hall on "Crime and Its Treatment". "He is a murderer, a bootlegger, and in every way a vicious criminal. He should have been electrocuted without any question, and not have been allowed to escape the chair under the plea of insanity...
...stud, in the Reading Room, and a few nights ago I had an opportunity of observing at least one gentleman who is evidently in the same unfortunate position: during the three quarters of an hour in which I strove to read, he slept soundly and somewhat heavily in his chair, and was still asleep when I finally gave up and left in disgust...