Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...acute angle and exhibited a burst of U. S. energy. He went through a mock arrest, telling Sir John Knill, the acting Lord Mayor, "It's the sword makes me own up, my Lord." He dashed to luncheons, teas, handshakings; tried out the Lord Mayor's chair, a chipper urchin among greybeards; rattled questions about London slums and busses; missed his dinner; clapped at the theatre; consoled Mrs. Walker for losing her largest trunk. He startled his Manhattan subordinates by calling up on the radiophone to say, "Hello, how is everybody over there?" Mrs. Walker took her turn...
...eyes were full of tears; but he retained enough presence of mind to tell reporters that if they asked him about Irish politics he would "throw them out of the window." He sped to the paternal home, Castlecomer; waved at babies and grannies, made a speech on a kitchen chair. He dined with Tenor John McCormack Saturday night and took naps Sunday afternoon. Then he held up a mail steamer to hurry back to England. From England he planned to go to Berlin, Paris...
...denied committing-of a paymaster and guard at South Braintree, Mass., in 1920. Celestino Madeiros, confessed murderer of a bank cashier in Wrentham, Mass., was notified to the same effect. Prisoner Madeiros, in a stupor from overeating at his last meal, preceded his world-famed neighbors to the electric chair...
...minutes before midnight. Straps of the electric chair in the Massachusetts state prison had been oiled, adjusted, inspected by the executioner. Machine guns had been placed along the prison walls to prevent violence. Radio station WSOM in Manhattan was hooked up ready for the broadcasting of the execution by the Eugene V. Debs Memorial Radio Fund. In adjoining death cells Nicola Sacco, Bartolomeo Vanzetti and Celestino Madeiros? were waiting for a man to slit their trouser legs, make them ready for metal strips through which would pass a current of electricity...
...head the Federal Steel Corp., how Judge Gary kept insisting that a still bigger corporation must be formed to compete with England and Germany, how Mr. Morgan bought out Andrew Carnegie and put Charles M. Schwab, a Carnegie man, in the presidency and Judge Gary in the executive chair of the first billion-dollar trust is familiar history...