Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Asked who Charles Alexander was, Athlete Ives last week descended from the witness chair, laid his hand on the shoulder of Son Charles Hoeppel. Son Charles did not testify but his father did. Representative Hoeppel swore that he had made the appointment only to please Army officers who wanted a good footballer on the Army team, that he had never been paid for making the appointment, that he had never discussed with his son giving the appointment to Ives...
...Supreme Court having refused to review his case fortnight ago, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was resentenced last week (Dec. 13) to die in the electric chair sometime during the week...
Round as a biscuit is the floor of the private elevator of the President of Czechoslovakia and fixed in the centre is a stately chair for 85-year-old Dr. Thomas Garrigue Masaryk,, onetime blacksmith's apprentice, "Father of Czechoslovakia...
Last week the Royal Gallery of the Houses of Parliament was being "renovated" for the coming trial. A woolsack was installed for Viscount Hailsham to sit upon in his capacity as Lord High Chancellor and a gilt chair from the King's robing room for use in his other capacity as Lord High Steward. For this occasion the House of Lords official known as Black Rod will carry not his usual black rod but a white rod, for the reason that after sentence is delivered the Lord High Steward must break Black Rod's white rod across...
...Under British guidance a king still rules there. Though he affects the coral headdress of his ancestors and a curved executioner's sword still precedes him wherever he goes, he wears gold-rimmed spectacles, speaks with an Oxford accent, and was discovered last year seated in a rocking chair, reading Lord Chesterfield's Letters...