Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...issues--a collector's item if that's your idea of a good time--carried, in addition to advertisements for "Silk Smoking Caps, Japanese" and "Brier-wood and Meershaum Pipes, Gambier Bowls, and Toilet Articles," and pen-and-ink drawing of two typical Harvard students ensconced in a gaslit chamber. One gentleman, collared in celluloid, is reclining in a lace-fringed chair, smoking a catarrh cigarette and casually flicking ashes into a brass spittoon. The other is standing firmly before the fireplace, warming the seat of his blue serge pants, and the conversation runs as follows...
...Lima's red-carpeted Chamber of Deputies, the first conference of the new anti-Communist C.I.T. (InterAmerican, Federation of Labor) whisked to a successful close. There had been only a few bad moments...
...Friend Ship' plan was carried out under the Boston Chamber of Commerce...
...camera peered about the House chamber for awhile, finally came to rest on the Truman features and, except for a few blinks from the side, stared at him full-face and close-up throughout the speech...
...prime defect of "realistic" writers was their unrealistic failure to understand that "no man lives in the external truth, among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied walls." "True realism," Stevenson concluded, "always and everywhere is ... to find out where joy resides, and give it a voice. . . . For to miss the joy is to miss...