Word: seat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...antipathies in U. S. politics have been so significant as that between the present U. S. Secretary of Agriculture, who looks homespun in a marble office, and the present Supreme Court of the U. S., whose Chief Justice would look Jovian in a rumble seat. They tangled from the beginning of the Great Court Battle, when Henry Agard Wallace charged that in ordering the return of $200,000,000 of AAA's invalidated processing taxes, the Supreme Court had authorized "the greatest legal steal in history." Since then the Court has come to terms with most of the organic...
...Erskine (The Private Life of Helen of Troy) and Ursula Parrott (Ex-Wife), journalist Quentin Reynolds, advertising executive Jack Pegler (brother of Westbrook), literary agent George T. Bye. Saluting its neighbors, the Nutmeg announced: "We have no policy. . . . The Nutmeg is our cracker barrel. There will always be a seat for you on a nail keg. We promise to supply at least two problems where you had only one before...
...Bolles played the Good Samaritan, bringing his launch alongside the Rabbitt shell to pick Whitnack out of the water by the scruff of his neck and drop him back dripping into the bow seat...
...whole German hierarchy, had deliberately abstained from voting in last month's plebiscite. That one, Bishop Johann Baptist Sproll, head of the Church in Württemberg, had immediately been informed by the secret police that his security could not be guaranteed. He left his episcopal seat, Rottenburg, but presently returned. Last week the Nazi governor of Württemberg, Wilhelm Murr, demanded that Bishop Sproll resign his post, on the grounds that his "disloyalty" to the State was a violation of the 1933 concordat between Church & State-which the Nazis have violated so thoroughly that...
...harassed Honors candidate left the Hall, and followed by an anxious proctor crossed the street to the fruit stand, procured two apples and returned, to his seat, juggling the fruit. A rising ovation greeted the scholar with the sense to put his stomach first...