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Word: chaires (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with a list of 142 ladies. The sensation, at the time, was international, if not cosmic. Yet the Court asked last week: "Have you a hus-band?" Sari Fedak (shrugging a black, snaky shoulder): "Thank God, no!" The Court: "Have you any physical defects?" Sari Fedak (relaxing in her chair, replying in a sultry tone): "Certainly not-unless in my brain." Ah, reflected the auditors, more than one brain had been turned by Sari Fedak. Does not Count Emerich Dagenfeldt, now an old man, dwell locked in a wing of his castle, preparing incessantly gifts and toys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: National Jest | 5/9/1927 | See Source »

...Falls are always imminent in a child's life, and the first creeping stage, before he has begun to stand or walk, is the time to begin teaching him to avoid them. Long before a baby can climb onto a bed or chair he should learn to get safely down. Whenever the mother happens to be handling the baby on a bed, for instance, she should not lift him down when she has finished, but should turn him over onto his little tummy, slide him gently backward until his legs hang over the edge of the bed and continue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Baby Safety | 5/9/1927 | See Source »

...Memorial during its half century of efficiency club tables could always be formed by those who desired. The relator sat for three years in the same chair at Memorial Hall with the same eleven men; all of whom happened to be members of one society, though that was unusual. The friendships thus formed, the lively talk thus engendered, the sense of common interest, the responsibility for settling the great social and educational questions of Harvard, was worth as much to me as all that I got in the classrooms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLUB TABLES A HABIT OF MANKIND, WRITES HART | 5/6/1927 | See Source »

...following article was written to the Crimson ry J. R. Hamlen 04, Chair man of the Harvard Fund Council, who has just returned from the district afflicted by the Mississippi floods, wher he attended the Memphis Convention a Harvard Clubs. Mr. Hamlen travelle extensively through the inundated area after the convention...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REPORTS OF MISSISSIPPI FLOODS UNMAGNIFIED | 5/6/1927 | See Source »

Sunday has benerally been a dull day for the Vagabond. In the days of childhood, the seventh day was associated with interminable and dreary calls on friends of the family, where an incredibly hard and stiff-backed chair was usually provided for him, from which perch he was left to contemplate the family portraits while his elders discussed matters beyond his ken. Now that such ordeals are done, the Sabbath passes in a flaccid mood that contenplates and condemns all things, particularly those of an academic tinge. There is scant pleasure in a contemplation of Monday's lecture schedule...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

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