Word: swivels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thing. It's too casy to write." In substance this is what Mr. Chase has too easy to write." In substance this is what Mr. Chase has to say about Anderson. This is a critical study of a man who wrote his first novel at forty, leaving the swivel chair of presidency in an Elyria, Ohio, paint factory to build himself a new life of meaning...
Privy Councilor Bach, with cool presence of mind, reached for and lit a cigaret. Leaning back in his swivel chair, he puffed a moment, then quietly remarked, "I will hear your explanation...
...curtain rises, Dr. Palely is apprehended walking slowly in a circle within a bare, white-washed room. In the center of the circle upon a swivel chair sits a Wistful Youth. In his mouth is firmly embedded a large wooden bath thermometer. After a lapse of about three minutes Dr. Palely speaks...
Through a long afternoon filled with soporific technicalities that occasionally snorted into colorful blasphemy, the whiskered "stool pigeon of King George" tilted far back in his swivel chair, read the Chicago Tribune comic strip about Andrew Gump, Minerva Gump, etc., etc. Above the edge of the newspaper, courtroom idlers could see Mr. McAndrew's iron grey hair. Occasionally he put the newspaper down and chuckled. Then the idlers noted his white whiskers well tinged with red, his high color, his eyebrows that laid a direct black line across his forehead...
...thousand fairways, as many close-clipped greens, countless traps and bunkers are sheathed with ice and snow. Investments totaling $180,000,000 (interest at 6%, 120 days, $3,600,000) yield no return save wistful hopes for an early spring. Two hundred thousand livers, in torsos bound to northern swivel chairs, become torpid, cause unfortunate changes in blood. Club dues continue. Last week four men set out over the difficult Mayfield course, scene of many championships, near Cleveland. A blizzard had just passed that way. Yet three hours later they plodded up from the eighteenth green, tired, satisfied, proud...