Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That evening, Mr. Duvall ordered a burly police squad to guard "Mayor" Holmes's office against invasion by "Mayor" Negley. When "Mayor" Negley arrived in the morning, he found that "Mayor" Holmes had gone out for breakfast after an early morning vigil. Mrs. Holmes sat in her husband's chair, jealously immovable. "Mayor" Negley eyed her dubiously and loitered around the office. In his pocket he had a court injunction, temporarily restraining "Mayor" Holmes from functioning...
Then "Mayor" Holmes came in from breakfast, "Mayor" Negley grinned with relief. He flourished his injunction. "Mayor" Holmes grinned. Joking, giggling, each "mayor" drew a chair up to the mayoral desk and sat down...
...brandished a revolver, produced from under his voluminous black gown. Shrieks of terror mingled with gasps met this display. Flappers sat with blanched faces; bewhiskered Hebrews rocked back and forth with supressed excitement; Ukrainians, more pallid than ever, glanced nervously through their narrow eyes. Maitre Torres, aiming at a chair, pulled the trigger?there was a dull click, followed by sighs of relief. He was attempting to prove that M. Schwartzbard could not have shot Simon Petlura as he lay , prone on the ground...
...tall, old doctor stops at a patient slumped in a wheel chair. He lifts the patient's dull face by the chin and turns to the visitors. The loose ends of his black string tie, which he always wears in a bow, flop about as he explains the case. "This man," he says in effect, "is in the early stages of paresis.* The paralysis has not advanced hopelessly. By injecting into his blood the germs of malaria or serum from the blood of people sick with malaria, we will stop the spread of the syphilis. The malaria toxins...
Professor R. C. Bryant of the Yale School of Forestry will speak tomorrow at 10 o'clock on "Lumber Economics." Professor Bryant holds the Chair of Forestry established at Yale by the American Lumberman's Association...