Word: sat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that Hoover is asking for appropriations for another commission. This "beaver man,'' as you called him last year, is undoubtedly starting things moving. Many of us old Timers are wondering if he is not undertaking too much. Personally I prefer the policy of his predecessor, who sat still, said nothing, and acted, when he acted, chiefly on the recommendations of big bankers-men who knew what they were doing...
...crowd of spectators at last week's Senate Lobby Committee hearings sat one inconspicuous man intently following every word of testimony, taking many a note. No professional newsgatherer, he was reporting the investigation for a special client. Inmmediately after each day's hearings a comprehensive report of what had transpired swiftly found its way into the White House and upon the President's desk...
...days later, armed with his appointment credentials from Governor Fisher, rotund, rosy-cheeked Mr. Grundy smilingly entered the Senate chamber with Pennsylvania's Senator Reed to take the oath of office. By mistake he sat in the seat of Senator Norris, who was told that he had been himself "unseated." But for three hours Mr. Grundy had to wait while Senators violently abused him and Governor Fisher. With hands folded in his lap and a bland smile on his round face, he listened placidly to a torrential flow of senatorial invective. He heard himself called a "corrupt lobbyist," his appointment...
...Angeles one Gregory Woodford sat with his friend J. A. Pursley in a seventh story hotel window, telling a joke. At the climax Woodford gave Pursley a thrust in the ribs. Both rollicked with laughter, fell out of the window, were killed...
...Transvaal, South Africa, one F. A. Welthagen, hunter, sat down on the banks of the Brak River to wait for guinea fowl. Seven lions appeared, drank. Welthagen raised his gun, shot one who was drinking, another who was regarding him, another who ran toward him, a fourth who retreated-all in two minutes...