Word: seated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...February, the airmail situation developed and the little plane project was shoved into a back seat...
...Sinclair victory threatened to drive California moderates as well as conservatives to vote the Republican ticket in November. If such a mass movement should develop, it might sweep many a luckless Democratic Representative out of his seat and return to the House a batch of Republicans who would do the prestige of the Roosevelt Administration no national good whatever. Both Boss Farley and President Roosevelt were anxiously aware of these possibilities when Republican Senator Hastings of Delaware said the thing they did not want said: "Upton Sinclair is a Socialist running on a Socialist platform heartily endorsing the New Deal...
...Geneva everyone down to the scrubwomen was sure that the 18 "noes" necessary to blackball Russia when the League Assembly meets would not be found. In Moscow and Warsaw, however, other difficulties were stressed. Russia will demand a permanent League Council seat. Failing that she may refuse to join. Just now Poland has a semi-permanent Council seat. She threatened last week to demand a permanent seat for herself if Russia gets one. Since the Council can only act by unanimous vote, Poland was thus in a position to blackmail the Council, seemed strongly disposed to make the attempt...
...Today it represents 850 composers, 760 writers, go publishers?the best musicmakers in the land. It issues annual licenses to places where music by A. S. C. A. & P. members is likely to be played and collects royalties: $60-$360 from night clubs; $80-$360 from hotels; 10¢ a seat per year from cinema theatres. Places that play A. S. C. A. & P. music without licenses are reported by a nation-wide organization of spies, are promptly sued...
...thin dyspeptic Londoner. One evening he and his wife attended a neighborhood cinema. As he took his seat, his foul breath caused others to jerk their heads away. He pretended not to notice, put a cigaret between his lips. Just as he brought the lighted match, carefully cupped in his hands, up to the cigaret, he emitted a mighty belch. There was a sudden flash of flame, a rumbling "poom," a smell of singed hair. The cigaret was projected by the explosion over three rows of seats. "In pain and confusion," declared the Lancet, British medical weekly, in reporting...