Word: sat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feet. Senator Bingham's eyes traveled trustingly to him. Said Senator Fess: "Mr, President, I ask the Senator [Norris] if he will not allow the resolution to go over." Senator Norris moved his head in the perfunctory assent of one long used to the Senate's delays. Senator Fess sat down. Senator Bingham looked at the back of Senator Norris' head...
There were not enough chairs so some of the Cabinet sat on camp stools. They had met in the plain, business-like office of Australia's new Labor Prime Minister, quiet; vigorous James Henry Scullin (TIME, Nov. 5). After a long, tense session last week they jolted all Australia by announcing suspension of compulsory military training...
...conviction of Fall as a bribe-taker, the first conviction to be obtained by the U. S. on direct evidence of the naval oil scandals (1921-23), produced a strange courtroom scene. Defendant Fall, seriously ill with bronchial pneumonia, sat in a green Morris chair, wrapped in an automobile robe, his black New Mexican sombrero in his lap. His eyes were stunned, blankly staring at the verdict. Down his white, sunken cheek rolled a teardrop, to be kissed away by his sobbing wife. Other women present moaned and groaned hysterically. Robust cowpunchers and ranchers bent their heads in sorrow...
Scorning his self-designed "Japanese" bed with its carved and gilded dragon headboard, he sat upright by his desk, his soft felt trench cap on his big head, grey woolen gloves on his hands, writing, correcting proof, revising his new book that is so nearly ready, between fits of drowsing in his chair...
Advertisements which knock instead of boosting have become rare in the U. S. But last week appeared, in some 600 newspapers throughout the U. S., a caricatured robot brutally plucking a harp over which hung a weeping muse (presumably Euterpe) and beside which sat a howling hound. The caption was: "The robot as an entertainer-Is the substitution for real music a success?" The advertising "story" appended was the American Federation of Musicians' complaint against substituting mechanically synchronized music for orchestras in theatres...