Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...everyone's attention, in another two seconds, however, by whisking an automatic pistol from her magazine and firing two peremptory shots at Judge Johnson. The courtroom banged with noise. Splinters flew from the woodwork and a blackboard behind Judge Johnson, whose reflexes made him huddle down into his chair so suddenly that the next moment he tumbled down the bench step, though as yet unhurt...
...state governors seldom find time to visit at the White House, but one of them was among the first Coolidge callers last week -Governor John T. Martineau of Arkansas. He came as a chair-man with his six Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi colleagues on the tri-state executive board of flood control. After the call, Governor Martineau said: "We found President Coolidge sympathetic. . . ." He estimated that the permanent anti-flood program would cost close to a half billion.* The governor and colleagues later conferred with Secretary of War Davis and chief of engineers General Hadwin. ¶Four days after Governor...
...Dugan take to a life of shame. Act divisions are brought about by court adjournments. Rex Cherryman, who is swiftly rising to preeminence among young actors, acts as brother and defending attorney for accused. The play (by Bayard Veiller, who wrote other tense melodramas, Within the Law, The Thirteenth Chair) moves more swiftly than the law but with all its ruthless directness. Its plot has the fascinating features of a front-page murder story. The Command to Love. The balance of power in international politics is not maintained by heartless artillery alone. Every French diplomat to the Spanish court...
Professor Eric R. D. Maclagen, Director and Secretary of the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, London, has been chosen as the incumbent of the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry for the coming year...
Succeeding Gilbert Murray of Oxford, Professor Maclagen is the second occupant of the Charles Eliot Norton Chair, founded by the late C. C. Stillman '98. The holders of the chair are not confined to literary forms of poetry alone, but may treat music, painting, sculpture, architecture, or any branch of poetic art. Last year Professor Murray treated "The Classical Tradition in English Poetry...