Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Richie Mack sat chain-smoking, his hand trembling, his eyes filled with tears. When Harris finished, he leaned forward, said in a choked voice: "I will certainly most seriously consider your remarks...
...change pace, Borge sat down and did some serious playing (the best: a Gershwin medley done while cameras ghosted through Manhattan streets that the composer once prowled). Even the commercials were fun. When Borge showed a picture of his Pontiac. it turned out to be a mound of snow. "The bad thing, of course," he confided, "is that my wife is still in it." As always, he wrapped up the show with a farewell line gilding sentiment with a gag: "When a hand comes out and wipes away a tear, that's my reward. The rest goes...
...Next to the exact image he then projected a second slide of the same portrait-this time as seen through an astigmatism-correcting lens. Where the cardinal had appeared elongated and distorted, he now appeared normal; where the cardinal had leaned forward almost falling off his chair, he now sat squarely...
...strength to repeat everything they had seen and heard. One of them, arriving in broad daylight. claimed that he was led by a servant carrying a lantern through a succession of cavernous, shuttered rooms until a door opened into a brilliant drawing room lit by 20 candles. Here sat Emilie, Marquise du Chatelet, surrounded by scientific instruments and glittering "with diamonds like an operatic Venus." Above, "weaving spells" at the head of a secret staircase, sat "the Magician" who was Emilie's lover, the notorious M. de Voltaire. When a bell announced suppertime, the company gathered in a dining...
...Serge would continue as he sat with the kids in their warp-walled house in New Orleans) Dennis saw a girl sitting in the parlor of a neighbor, so beautiful that he loved her right off. Even when Florabelle looked him full in the face and he saw that she only had one good eye, he didn't mind. He lifted her in his arms and put her in his buggy and drove her out for a ride. Parked out beside Lake Pontchartrain, he asked her to marry him. She winced; then, without saying anything, she threw aside...