Word: seat
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...eight months, Mississippi's gnome-like Theodore Bilbo had been waiting for the day he would descend on Washington and reclaim his seat in the U.S. Senate. Part of the time he spent dawdling around his echoing 27-room Dream House at Poplarville, Miss. Part of his exile was spent in New Orleans "getting my mouth reamed out." He had cancer of the mouth and he underwent a series of delicate operations...
...Boston Braves, in an all-out public-relations effort, offered night baseball fans a dinner at Boston's staid Somerset Hotel, a seat at the game and cab rides to and from the ball park-all for $4.50. The corporation counsel for the District of Columbia said that it is legal for a minor to drink in capital bars so long as he does not order the drink, pay for it, or have it set in front of him by a tavern owner or waiter. He added: "For a child to drink with his parents is the greatest safeguard...
...American guest was gauche enough to ask the Iron Chancellor's youngest grandson, His Excellency Otto von Bismarck, what he did for a living. "Oh," he said, "I manage my estate" (Friedrichsruh, the family seat near Hamburg...
Bodet was cheered from the time he ended until he had walked three-quarters of the way around the room to his seat between Bolivia and Haiti. He had said what practically every Latin delegate had on his mind. While the Rio Conference's top subject was joint defense of the hemisphere, the Latin republics, harassed by inflation and meager dollar reserves, were much more eager to talk about economics...
Finally after a lot of talking and shaking hands, someone started drawing the ticket stubs out of a bowl, and Vag found himself sitting forward in his seat. But someone else won, and there was a short, disappointed burst of applause. The girl gave him an "I told you so" look, and stalked away, while Vag ambled with the crowd through the exit and toward the bridge. Raffles were pretty good, he said to himself after a little consideration. Even if you didn't win, there was the excitement. And that was one thing that Harvard lacked, excitement...