Word: seat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that pro-French, pro-League Nicholas Titulescu was greeted by National Peasant Party Leader Nicolai Lupu-who declared amid cheers, "You were deprived of your Cabinet post by trickery!"-set rumors buzzing. It was said that the Peasant Party will insure his re-election to a seat in the Rumanian Chamber and generally back his political comeback, although he never has belonged to the Peasant Party...
...around me were steatopygous females busy with their knitting. A paunchy (is that the word?) old girl in the next seat was sewing, and punctuated Mr. DeVoto's remarks with horrible rippings. Every two minutes she ripped a piece of cloth, so help...
...Completion of nominations for the 1,143 parliamentary seats to be filled on December 12 by the first election under Russia's new Constitution (TIME, Nov. 8) disclosed last week that in nearly every case only one candidate had been nominated for each seat. According to Soviet President Mikhail Kalinin in a speech at Leningrad last week, the average Russian is asking himself: "What is the use of my going to vote? There is only one candidate, and he will be elected anyway...
Thirty-five years ago, in uptown Manhattan, devout Russians built, with money donated by the late Tsar Nicholas II, a brick & sandstone Cathedral of St. Nicholas, archiepiscopal seat of the Russian Orthodox Church on the North American continent. Recently, many a passerby in the street gazed upward at the Cathedral's steeply-pitched roof. There, perched on a ladder, a stocky young man wielded tar buckets, rolls of tar paper. He was Very Rev. Michael Maslov, dean of the Cathedral. For months, rain had been leaking through the roof, damaging the murals and icons within. Prelates of the Cathedral...
...toward these that the little Freshman rushed, Thoughtless fool, he had neglected to secure himself a seat in time. Now it was too late. An usher ran after him, grabbed his arm and pointed to a placard reading "Reserved." There was a vain argument, futile pleading, stony refusal. Dejectedly our hero retraced his steps, with many a backward glance...