Word: seated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...autumn "Alex" was also put in charge of WPA Project No. 1744, in which a number of idle girls were employed gathering public school records for the past 15 years. Last month when the anti-Roosevelt Congress of "Goober Democrats" gathered at Macon (TIME, Feb. 10), on each & every seat lay a copy of The Georgia Woman's World, a four-page throw-away devoted largely to photographs of President & Mrs. Roosevelt consorting with Negroes. Promptly the local WTAdministration announced that Brother Alexander Howell had used WPA labor to wrap and mail copies of The Georgia Woman...
...stickler, Sir Austen argued against this private bill which thereupon was withdrawn; argued for a similar reform by the Government, thus associating himself with His Majesty's Government in debate. Yet in so doing Sir Austen delivered the maximum blow to "Bumbler Baldwin." After Sir Austen resumed his seat, the House of Commons lobbies heard for the first time serious talk that the long British political reign of Squire Baldwin, famed "archtype of John Bull," could be considered as drawing to its close...
...steadily pulling on a rope, Dr. Hantlig gently lifts the patient until his buttocks just clear the seat of the chair...
...dignity hath left him. Wherefore he hath vowed a great deed, and he hath lifted up his voice and cried, "Wherefore hast thou deceived thy church? And it shall come to pass when thou shalt come to the city of the fathers, so shalt I kicketh thee from the seat of elect to the seat of the mighty: Such shalt be mine atonement". And the priest hath made answer: "Wherefore shalt I appear on the appointed day thereof." And the report hath filled all the land, and the appointed day hath come, and the priest doth not arrive...
Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, seeking a safe constituency for the King's silver-haired, silver-tongued friend, arranged for MacDonald to contest a seat representing the Scottish Universities, notwithstanding that as Labor Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald sought and failed some years ago to combine the three Scottish Universities' seats into one. Last week the Scottish academicians recognized that Mr. MacDonald is now as Conservative as any man in the Kingdom, sent him to the House of Commons where Conservatives cheered and Laborites jeered. C. Speeded extension of Unemployment...