Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Angeles the pick of the prodigy crop seemed to be Felix Abcede, 9, a chubby, black-haired Filipino who played last December in the Philharmonic auditorium, created such a furor that he was perched on a chair to receive autograph hounds. Young Felix was scheduled to play in San Francisco soon afterwards. That concert never came off because his parents were at odds and his teacher raised a fracas. Victim was the boy violinist, a pawn now involved in a bitter legal controversy. Often he has been told that he is greater than Heifetz or Kreisler...
...Cann had witnesses, too. These definitely placed him in a chair at the Artistic Barber Shop, far from the scene of the crime, well before 5:41 p.m. and long after. When his case went to a jury of eight men and four women last week, they promptly returned a verdict of not guilty...
...closed the door, pulled the curtains across the windows, then flopped into an overstuffed chair with a great sigh...
...When the Turks had pulled those ships up the skids to the top of the hill--well, gentlemen, the boys all hopped on and rode down to the bay". The Vagabond muses on basking with delight in his chair, waiting for the deceptive cadences at the end of Professor Langer's sentences. It must have been fun taking Constantinople, even if everyone in those days had to carry musty spices of the East to quell his nausea. It is such little remarks that the Vagabond remembers from all these many, many lectures; surely such a one was worth the three...
...last December newshawks discovered Samuel Insull in a suite of offices on the 42nd floor of that famed Insull monument, Chicago's Civic Opera Building. Dressed in cutaway and striped trousers, the white-crested utilitarian was about to take a familiar chair at the head of a long directors' table, carefully laid with pads & pencils. Between puffs on his cigar, Mr. Insull announced that he had nothing to say-"yet." But what he was up to was no secret. At 76, he was getting into radio broadcasting (TIME, Jan. 6). Last week the Insull venture was formally chartered...