Word: seated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thence to Cock Horse to cat, and I was stung exceedingly, and thence to town and to Shubert to see Water Hampden as Cyrano de Bergerac. By good fortune I did get a box seat at balcony fee--so great was the audience--and by more good fortune did seat aside Miss Williams of "Three Men on a Horse" comedy. A pretty one she is and I did talk to her with great pleasure, all the time her gentleman-friend looking daggers at me which I did pretend...
...word sped through the Capitol that Virginia's whip-tongued Carter Glass, third Wilson Secretary of the Treasury, would rise to answer him. When the frail, 78-year-old Virginian pulled himself to his feet, face pale and drawn, eyes flashing, the Senate galleries were packed and every seat on the Democratic side was filled...
...from 1897 to 1905 when the quartet broke publicly with Roosevelt I. In 1909, as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, he was co-author of the notorious Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act which cost the Republicans the House of Representatives in the 1910 election. After 30 years in his seat Senator Aldrich retired...
...popular imagination of the world," cried Sir Philip from his padded seat, "there is no doubt that Zaharoff is regarded as a very sinister figure walking through the courts of Europe as agent for the sale of munitions. . . . Was he not your general agent...
...book by generous quotations, hunting songs, a nostalgic chapter on hunting with the Quorn, the Pytchley, other famed English hunts. With modest justice he calls his book "the random findings of an American business man who would that he could have been born a sportsman." Another sample of his seat on Pegasus: "Let us not forget that it makes a very great difference where you sit as to how the picture looks...