Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...company," says Ludwig, "because they always go at the first hint from me." Banquets are given, to "the King of France." Ludwig presides, and bewildered Bavarian lackeys must pour out wine and serve viands to a dozen guests who are not there. King Ludwig jests gravely with the empty chair in which is supposed to sit Louis XVI. To Marie Antoinette the sly Ludwig pays less attention. He must not rouse the husband's suspicions ?clever Ludwig! She will slip away soon enough to the great bed, large enough for six, on which mad Ludwig lies beneath a gold...
...Manhattan, playing pinochle, one Frank Frankenthal, night watchman, picked up his cards for a hand; saw five aces, smiled; six aces, scowled; seven aces, gasped; eight aces, leaped from his chair, whooped, gasped, fell unconscious, died...
Judge Elbert Henry Gary, 81, at the American Iron & Steel Institute meeting in Manhattan, related: "A few weeks ago practicing a very foolish thing that I have been accustomed to, I put my feet up on my desk-at a directors' meeting too, while I was thinking-my chair tipped over too far and, of course, I struck the arm of the chair in the very worst place-in the small of the back. Since that time I have not been quite up to par and my nerves were to some extent shocked I think. This morning...
...cabinet designed to hold and index 20,000 lantern slides; a museum case which must be moth-proof and worm-proof; tents for a camp; lenses from Germany for a powerful telescope; a carefully-planned outfit for a South African expedition; a cushion for an instructor's office chair; fresh bottled-water for a thirsty professor; red and yellow chalk for the blackboards so plain that the students at the back of the room can see it; steel furniture for an anti-toxin laboratory; beakers, flasks, and evaporating dishes; 25 cases of books for the Sanskrit Department, printed in London...
Speaking in behalf of the undergraduate members, C. G. T. Lundell '27 expressed appreciation of the service rendered by Mr. Tibbetts, and at the close of his address presented the resigning secretary with a wing chair, the gift of the undergraduates in the Cabinet. G. G. Wilson '25 spoke for the graduates, and reiterated Lundell's sentiments...