Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus spoke James Ramsay Macdonald, leader of the British Labor party last week at Jefferson Hospital, Philadelphia. He has been severely ill with laryngitis, but last week his physician, Dr. Solomon Solis-Cohen, allowed him to receive reporters. A Morris chair was set at his bedside, and Mr. Macdonald, clad in flannel pajamas, got up, donned a bathrobe, sat down?frequently mopping his brow with a folded handkerchief. He spoke in a bitter, tired voice of the British Government's now pending anti-strike bill (TIME, April...
...Seattle landed Professor Theodore Hobbie, returning last week from his occupancy of the chair of mathematics at Boone University, Wuchang, directly across the Yangtze River from Hankow (TIME, Jan. 17 et seq.) where Chinese caused Britons to evacuate their $60,000,000 concession. Said Eye-witness Hobbie: "We had no idea that the disturbance in China was so serious until we picked up the American newspapers. . . . "Shortly before I left Wuchang a representative body of our students approached our Dean, Mr. Wei, and stated that they had been commanded by the students' union to make certain demands from...
...confused with Miami University at Oxford, Ohio, whose President, Dr. Raymond M. Hughes, was last week invited to take the presidential chair at Iowa State College of Agriculture and Me chanical Arts, at Ames, Iowa. *It was his first audience after a frustrated attempt on his life...
...Manhattan, a real U. S. adultress and her paramour were on trial for their lives for having prosecuted a design very similar to Clytemnestra's by methods scarely more gruesome than those set forth in the play. The U. S. man and woman, were sent to the electric chair, objects of public horror. But from the circumstances that Miss Anglin's play was written when there were giants in theatreland? by Sophocles of Athens?and that Miss Anglin is a truly great tragedienne and director, her deserving of her medal was if anything heightened. The most glib and cocky...
...blackboards: "We want our Lulu back." On April Fool's Day, 1,000 students went on strike. Their parents backed them, held mass meetings, threatened to take all Superior children out of school unless Miss Dickinson was reinstated. Last week the school board returned Miss Dickinson to her chair...