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Word: chaires (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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There they found the Prince, Major Bernard J. Tooher of the U. S. Army, two other guests and the corpse of the Prince's comely half-breed, common-law wife, Arvilla Kinslea. Arvilla Kinslea was propped up in a chair, wrapped in a bloodstained sheet. The living room was littered with broken crockery of which she had apparently been the target. Her face was ragged with lacerations. A deep gash in her throat had severed her jugular vein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Prince Koke | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

That evening he sat deep in his chair and absorbed the sonorous words of Maurice Evans as Richard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

...first, Hull, carries more personal prestige than any man in the administration. He is, however, past sixty; and may see his last days from the swivel chair of the Supreme Court bench. Wallace has dropped from the headlines of late but he has been quietly acquiring political knowledge, and, even more valuable, political friendships. He will bear watching, for the West is coming into its own and Henry Wallace has become dear to the farmer's hearts. Earle, by birth and rearing a political carbon copy of Roosevelt, has neither the former's personality, ability nor integrity. His labor record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POLITICAL PROGNOSTICATION. . . . | 10/23/1937 | See Source »

...first was an enormous electrical appliance. One janitor, in the know about the science of electricity, calls the work a "brain-tester," while another janitor, a sceptic, firmly believes the gadget is a do luxe Sing-Sing model of an electric chair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Electric Chair Is Among Metal Debris Left Behind by Eliot House Graduate | 10/14/1937 | See Source »

...Wales was a quiet, likeable chap with a flare for working with his hands. He stated that Wales kept all his tools in his room at B-31. The other janitor was not quite so convinced that Wales was a likeable chap. "He told me to sit in the chair and have my brains tested, but I didn't like the look in his eye and I didn't like the looks of the machine," this one announced...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Electric Chair Is Among Metal Debris Left Behind by Eliot House Graduate | 10/14/1937 | See Source »

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