Word: sat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Montreal baseball park 50,000 children, mostly French Catholic, 900 of them forming a great Union Jack, sang while the King & Queen sat in an open Buick near home plate...
...ancient Forbidden City. About as easy to smuggle as a couple of dentists' chairs, they were an eight-foot, ten-inch white jade Buddhist pagoda (largest jade piece in the world), and a gold, lacquer and mother-of-pearl teakwood Dragon Throne on which Manchu emperors had sat from the 17th Century to the close of their reign. In great secrecy the pagoda and throne, (together valued at $3,000,000) were spirited out of China by coolie cart, mule train, river junk and railroad, across Siberia and thence to The Netherlands, where they were stored in the Amsterdam...
...Bethlehem, Pa., in the noble Lehigh Valley, townsfolk turned out and Eastern music lovers poured in last week for the 32nd annual Bach Festival. To sing some of the greatest devotional music known to man, 143 housewives donned white dresses, 83 workmen put on their Sunday best and sat soberly together in the chancel of Lehigh University's Packer Chapel. As usual the audience overflowed comfortably on the lawn outside; as usual the opening chorale was bayed from the belfry by 16 sonorous trombones...
...nosed author of Men of Good Will, whose desire to report the whole life of his time in one novel has carried his book to its 15th volume. Listening as Author Romains reported P. E. N.'s change of front in 60 minutes of rapid-fire French sat writers from lands as far apart as Chile and China, delegates from Australia, Uruguay, Finland, South Africa-Germany's Thomas Mann and Ernst Toller, Spain's Pedro Salinas, China's Lin Yutang, France's André Maurois, the U. S.'s Dorothy Thompson, Henry Seidel Canby...
...Mother's Day in Chicago, Mrs. William Feller sat, proudly beaming, in a box, watching her son Bob Feller, 20-year-old star Cleveland pitcher, blast Chicago's White Sox. Pock! A White Sox batsman fouled. The ball took Mother Feller in the eye, opened a six-stitch gash...