Word: seated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Queen jumped up from her seat on the grass and went over to Alice, putting her large cold hand on Alice's burning forehead. Then, without a word, she grasped Alice's hand and dragged her back across the lawn behind her. Two flies were meanwhile buzzing past each other on the little book Alice had left under the peach-tree. This evening at 8 o'clock the Vagabond will make his way to the New Lecture Hall to hear the talk of Mr. Norman Thomas, America's perennial Socialist candidate for President...
Mississippi's husky Aubert C. Dunn, 39-year-old War veteran who in 1934 defeated Rev. W. Lycurgus Spinks for his House seat, uprose to boom in a bullfrog voice: "I have not been boisterous since I became a freshman in this Congress. ... I have been the recipient of so many kind and courteous favors from my senior colleagues, until it makes me feel fainty. ... I want you to go with me to a place down at 311 D Street, NW, in the city of Washington...
...played with him for years were amazed at Giese's facility, the way his big hand moved crab-fashion over the keyboard, producing harmonics and arpeggios with seemingly little effort. Most bull fiddlers stand up to their instruments. Waldemar Giese has a specially designed stool with a swivel seat and a foot rest (see cut) which give him support...
...advertisements in Manhattan newspapers had gone well enough to convince Enoch Morgan's Sons Co., makers of Sapolio, that old soap advertising jingles like this were still good copy in 1936. Morgan's new batch of jingles told of the rediscovery of Spotless Town, mythical Sapolio-scoured seat of immaculacy, which between 1899 and 1905 made Sapolio probably the world's best-advertised product. The company has gone back to Spotless Town to advertise a new Sapolio powder with which it hopes to emerge from nearly 30 years of obscurity...
...every man is king and nobody is a millionaire, but successful writers are sitting pretty. Next to Maxim Gorky the Soviet author with the most thronelike seat is Alexei Tolstoi. Distantly related to the late great Leo (Anna Karenina), he enjoys a national success surpassing his great namesake...