Word: seated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...First Assistant. But when Senator Kendrick died and Governor Miller indicated his choice of Joe O'Mahoney as his successor, a group of Wyoming Republicans rose up to question the Governor's legal right to make the appointment. Wyoming law requires a special election if a Senate seat becomes vacant more than a year before the next general election, but allows the Governor to fill the vacancy if Congress is in session. Senator Kendrick died 52 hours outside the one-year period and Congress was not sitting. Therefore, it was argued, a special election was necessary. Republican hard...
...last week boasting 1,000 air-conditioned bedrooms.* To save George V from death by pneumonia his Bucking ham bedroom was air-conditioned at a cost of ?3,000 during one of London's persistent winter fogs (TIME, Dec. 17, 1928). ¶George V hunched forward in his seat, Queen Mary raised her lorgnette with approving interest. On the stage of the Drury Lane Theatre at a command performance for the King's pension fund for British stage folk, blonde U. S. Actress Claire Luce and Dancer Fred Astaire. brother of Lady Charles Cavendish, were doing their light...
...property of Swiss Federal Railways which they acutely feel to be their own. Last week one Christine Maple, a pretty Los Angeles young woman on her way from St. Moritz to Paris, stanchly resisted the efforts of Swiss passengers to make her take her feet off the opposite seat. When the train pulled into Zurich the enraged Swiss handed her to a Swiss gendarme who handed her to a Swiss judge who fined her 50 Swiss francs...
...snubnose hard against the looking glass and suddenly finds that she has walked through it. She floats softly to the floor of the other room. There she has a conversation with her Uncle Gilbert (Leon Errol) whose portrait naturally shows only his rear and the patch on the seat of his trousers. She argues politely with the Clock (Colin Kenny). She investigates goings-on among the members of her father's chess set, who are squealing on the hearthstone because the White Queen's (Louise Fazenda) pawn has climbed dangerously to a tabletop. Alice straightens out this difficulty...
Such is the nature of statesmen that without the seating list they could not eat. President Terra is the Dictator of Uruguay in affairs of state but he dared not try to seat his guests for fear of making a faux pas. Secretary Hull, though he had urged "informality" and harped on President Roosevelt's "good-neighbor policy" ever since the Conference opened, did not rise to this emergency with any such suggestion as "Why don't we all just sit down...