Word: seatful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Geepers, look at that grind! He's been glued to that seat ever since I started. His eyes are riveted on the book. It is in one of those gadgets that makes it stand up and has clips to hold the pages. He's got glasses and green eye shades. Why doesn't he wear horse blinder? He takes notes at a page a minute with one hand and turns the pages with the other. But every time he turns a page it gets stuck in the clip and he has knocked the thing over three times...
This week nine historic oldsters for the last time this season parted the heavy curtains, filed between the marble columns, took their seats with a rustle of gowns in their leather chairs behind the mahogany bench in their temple-like Chamber of the Supreme Court of the United States. To the sentimental crowd which jammed the Court room to see this farewell appear ance, the Justices looked unusually cheer ful and healthy. Even dour Justice McReynolds was smiling as if he had swal lowed some kind of a canary. But all eyes were on Justice Willis Van Devanter, whose retirement...
Half-masted last week was the flag of the New York Stock Exchange in memory of its most famed member-John Davison Rockefeller. Only once did Mr. Rockefeller ever enter the Exchange. That was in 1883 when he bought his seat, the rules-requiring his personal apearance before the admissions committee. But his membership, entitling him to low commissions, saved him vast sums in his personal transactions. He paid $30,000 for his seat, saw it sink to $15,500 in the 1890s, rise to $625,000 in the 19205, sink again to the current figure, $91,000. When...
...those big old Packards. Like a Pullman. One of the kind with windows like a showcase. The kind you step into, instead of crawling into. In the front seat, a chauffer. In the back, two elderly ladies, carefully isolated from the hired helmsman by a glass partition. Black dresses, white lace collars and cuffs. Queen Mary hats. Windows scientifically opened two inches as an official welcome to balmy weather...
...Gardner, Kans., Mrs. Harry Eyerly reported the theft of four chickens, one of which "always lays a double-yolked egg." Soon afterwards Sheriff Emmett Pitt stopped James Burtis at Olathe with eight hens in his automobile, arrested him when he found a double-yolked egg on the back seat...