Word: seat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pocket. Vag paused for a moment, watching a leaf spiral down past his window, then ran for the closet and grabbed his coat. He sprinted down the stairs and started across the quad, running easily, with the bottle carefully cradled in one hand. It could have the extra seat. This was Saturday afternoon, and Vag had a job to do. "What the hell," he thought. "We've got five more to go." As he paced himself through the gate, Vag lifted his head slightly and looked up at the deserted dining hall. "Kill the Indian!" he yelled, as loud...
National's "Star" passengers will get the full red-carpet treatment, starting with a carpet on the loading ramp and recorded music at take-offs and landings. The specially decorated DC-6s will seat 56 people and will have a lounge (Eastern's smaller Constellations carry 60 passengers, some sitting three abreast), fresh flowers in the planes every day, and such features as hot hors d'oeuvres and linen napkins. Fares will be no higher than on other DC-6 flights...
...movie trade lingo, a sureseater is a small "art" theater specializing in upperbrow films for upperbrow audiences. The word was originally used to suggest that every seat is sure to be filled. A skeptical Hollywood crack favors another interpretation: whenever you go, you are sure to get a seat. Last week the Hollywood joke rang hollow; having grown in a year from 226 to 270, U.S. sureseaters were booming. Symptoms...
...Selznick Releasing Organization had turned down a chance to book the British-made The Fallen Idol into Manhattan's 6,000-seat Radio City Music Hall, instead waited patiently to put it into the 550-seat Sutton theater, where the British-made Quartet was in its 28th week...
...usual sureseater formula is simple: give moviegoers what they rarely get in standard cinemansions-a single feature, no popcorn, well-behaved next-seat neighbors, super-comfortable seats and, most important, high-quality pictures from Britain, France, Italy and sometimes even Hollywood. Some 70 of the U.S. sureseaters show this kind of film exclusively; the rest, as often as they can get them...