Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course the Harvard Professor may soon be lecturing with amplifiers from his Morris Chair, or even while sunning himself with ex-Mayor Hylan on the Palm Beach sands. Fluency might be enhanced by a little Prince Albert in a Briar Pipe and by evading the facing of dreary rows of bland, apathetic faces. If the Professor be indisposed, each student may put on the record marked Hypnosis--Extra Deep--and have his roommate follow it with English 13 for Deep Sleepers--etc. The possibilities are obviously limitless...
...walked, past the costly Gobelin tapestry at his left, up the marble stairway lined with heads of mountain goats, lions, elk and caribou. Into the large room next to the library that is to be his workshop he stepped, paused, smiled at friendly objects: his desk, his favorite chair, many of his books, all brought carefully from the White House. Here he may work when he wishes to stay at home; on most days he will continue to use the executive offices in the right wing of the White House...
...minute before noon and the gavel of Vice President Dawes rapped sharply. "Oh, it's a shame to spoil a good speech like this," said Mr. Harrison. By the look in his beady-eyes, the Vice President had something curt to say. He said it: "The Chair regards the results of the present legislative session as primarily due to the defective rules of the Senate. . . . This is the only great parliamentary body in the world where such a situation exists. . , . "The hour of 12 o'clock having arrived, the Senate stands in adjournment sine...
After 6 a. m. Senator Capper of Kansas who had slept through many a telephone jangle, came in and was promptly deemed physical ly fit enough to succeed frazzled Senator Moses of New Hampshire in the Presiding Officer's chair. Vice President Dawes had left at 10 p. m. and Mr. Moses had done the heavy night work. Early in the morning Mr. Dawes returned. . . . At last, a quorum was present. But the filibusterers* kept the floor, allowed no one to move a vote on the Boulder Dam bill. Senator Hiram Johnson of California, co-author of the bill...
This was at the dedication ceremony. Representing the Aeolian Co. Architect Whitney Warren rose from his chair to deliver remarks appropriate. "The soul is not always in haste, the eye does not always seek the restless gesture of the skyscraper, never attaining its sky. A little rest, a little peace, a simplicity complete, a dream symbolized, as Colonel Michael Friedsam has so fittingly said, by the sounds of lute and viol in castle parks-I hope that the Aeolian Building conveys something of this. In its interior it contains all that modern musical demands may require...