Word: sat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should know that Mayor Houde, who seems in the past year to have become TIME-worthy, "wowed" Their Majesties. Antic: opening conversation at the banquet here by studying, as he sat between them, a list of conventions prepared for him which included the one that he must not open the conversation...
...with a tray full of glasses, water, ginger ale and bottles, one of our men going into the big library slipped and dropped the entire tray on the floor. And, as a final catastrophe, on Sunday afternoon my husband, moving backward across the grass by the swimming pool, almost sat on another tray of glasses and pop bottles...
Twenty Japanese officials and their Chinese puppets sat down to a gala banquet last week at the Japanese Consulate General at Nanking in honor of Japanese Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Tomesaburo Shimizu. The banquet began with a toast in wine. It ended when all the guests suddenly went under the table from a little poison slipped into the wine by "Chinese enemies...
...after eight months on Broadway, Norman Anthony offered Producers Olsen & Johnson half a cent a copy for permission to use the title for a magazine.* Having little ready cash, he got a printer and a paperseller to take a chance on three issues, bought $300 worth of art, then sat down in his room in the Parkside Hotel and wrote 32 pages of gags. This week the first issue of Hellzapoppin will appear on the newsstands ("15?-But Why Buy It?"), fully justifying its subtitle of "The World's Screwiest Magazine...
...sat upon her Dobie jerks retired majors from the India service out of their club chairs. But to most people, big and little, The Owl and the Pussy-Cat and many punny funny drawings remain Lear's tag to fame...