Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...study where, with the active assistance of palace servants and electricians, they spent a busy half-hour setting up their camera and six batteries of lights (each containing seven flash bulbs), so as to provide exactly the best lighting effects on anyone sitting in the King's chair. At precisely the appointed hour the King entered through his private door. He shook hands, chatted in English and French with the photographers, showed that he knew the rudiments of color photography. Then he sat down at his desk. In three minutes with His Majesty at his desk, Irwin & Langen made...
Representative Joseph Jefferson Mansfield of Columbus, Tex. is one of the two members of Congress who operate in wheel chairs.* A gentle, mild-mannered oldster of 76, who has been paralyzed since 1921, Congressman Mansfield created a furor in 1932 when he rolled himself down to the rostrum to sign a petition to discharge the Judiciary Committee from further consideration of a proposal to modify the 18th Amendment, and thus bring it to the floor. His was the 145th signature which the petition needed to become effective, a coincidence by which Congressman Mansfield professed to be greatly surprised. Last week...
...Wunderkinder were something new to U. S. audiences when, one evening in 1887, a sturdy n-year-old boy, 4 ft. tall and dressed in a sailor suit, marched out on the stage of Manhattan's new Metropolitan Opera House. The solemn youngster seated himself on a high chair at a piano whose pedals had been built up to be within reach of his short legs. In the wings offstage stood the boy's mother, an opera singer of Warsaw, and his father, who had taught him to play the piano so well that he was already...
Died. Tell Taylor, 61, composer of Down By the Old Mill Stream, which sold nearly 4,000,000 copies; and of many other popular barber-shop & rocking-chair melodies; of a heart attack; in Chicago...
Died. Alfred Solman, 69, composer of The Bird on Nellie's Hat, chosen by Eugene O'Neill for Ah, Wilderness! as the type-song of the 20th Century's first decade; and of many other popular barber-shop & rocking-chair melodies; in Manhattan...