Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...embarkation, the tugs whisper fuchsia, fuchsia, fuchsia; then cough cocoa, cocoa, cocoa as they push the ship to midstream. During a prayer at sewing circle, Helen Rain peeps covertly at the Women's varying technique-pinching bridge of nose; clasping stomach; kneeling thoroughly with head on chair-seat to present, Mrs. Rain thought, "a most remarkable God's-eye view...
...courage of Sandino," said Excelsior, "is not understood by vile souls incapable of gentlemanly acts, who would have placed in the electric chair even Don Quixote as a punishment for his most gallant adventures...
...Straton, "an attractive brunet woman" who speaks with a decided Southern accent (she comes from Atlanta), sat in a rocking-chair by the bedroom window darning black stockings...
...crashed into "The Old Man's" (by Rubens) forehead, its dregs and fragments joining the unholy litter on the rug, they picked up vases, jars, bookends, ash trays. They caved in the forehead of the youngest Lommelini (by Van Dyck), raked the mother's face with chair legs, sent a bottle-neck through the Lommelini daughter's cheek. One of them yanked open the vitals of a $17,000; built-in parlor organ; twisted the pipes, knocked off stops, walked on the keys, stamped, scuffed, dug with heels...
...General Wood left the train that brought him to Custer, S. Dak., and entered the motor car that took him to the State Lodge, he had to be assisted by his aides. At the Lodge, attempting to show that he was still active, vigorous, the General rose from a chair, toppled suddenly, was prevented from falling when his two Filipino servants grasped and steadied...