Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doctors, looking at Dr. Mason's empty convention chair, expected dutiful President James McLester, who was ending his year in office, to continue another year. But a tremulous voice moved that Dr. Mason be declared president, in absentia. With sighs of sadness and not a few tears, it was so declared. Said Dr. Mason in Seattle: "That's fine...
...played there for the big Floral Ball. Beale Street made him the leader of its grand parade. He stood in the first automobile, doffing his hat to left & right. At small Handy Park, named in his honor, he mounted a reviewing stand, settled down in an old-fashioned rocking chair, solemnly bowed as the marchers saluted...
...Landon has been an able Governor of Kansas. Honestly provincial, he is devouring stiff economic and social treatises, trying hard to push his mental horizon beyond Kansas plains. Of his capacity to fill the White House chair, his friend William Allen White devoutly declares: "If a man has any latent subconscious powers they are aroused by the overwhelming responsibility. ... I am inclined to believe that Landon would rise to it. I don't know. No man knows. I don't think he knows...
Wolde Mariam slipped into a chair, and Baron Aloisi puffed like a turkey...
...tails of her rings on a plate, a bottle which has contained stout, and a glass which betrays the fact that he has drunk the stout. There is also a half-empty packet of cigarets. The happy gentleman is all alone and he is leaning back in his chair playing his cornet. What is he playing? Well, I've called the picture I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls." The name of the piece is the only thing not made explicitly clear in the picture...