Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chief object of their attentions was the Reverend's servant, an aged West Indian Negro woman named Tituba. To those impressionable children from austere Puritan households, Tituba told romantic stories of the colorful land of her birth. All through the winter of 1691-1692, the girls sat entranced by the fire-side and heard chilling tales of voodoo charms, witches' curses, and the like...
Bostonians remember Charlie Ponzi. He was the little man's financeer, the one who promised an impossibly high interest rate to anyone who would entrust their money to him, spent a little cash paying off the first installments, and then sat back while the public, its good sense overawed by its desire to be millionaires overnight, magnified his initial pittance into an imposing fund of capital. The inevitable bust left many scars, but apparently it all happened so long ago that people have forgotten what this sort of charlatanism looked like...
...heaming master of ceremonies noisily rapped his fork against a water glass. Round the long luncheon table sat some of the leading lights in the Chicago business world. The meal had been good, quite good. Leisurely they chatted and un-wrapped expensive Havanas. The MC grew slightly irritated; they quieted. The speaker was introduced in extravagant terms; they applauded, extravagantly. As was usual, they only half listened to the after dinner speech. Half listened, until they heard the words: "...White was known to be a Communist spy by the very people who appointed him to the most sensitive and important...
Theater Royal (Sat...
Football (Sat. 1:45 p.m., NBC). Notre dame v. Southern Mechodist...