Word: seated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Uphill. Before the White House portico Mr. Roosevelt kept his seat in the car, waited a few minutes for President Hoover to join him for the ride up Capitol Hill. A lift of silk hats, a quick handshake, a few formal words and their greeting was over. With the country's most precious cargo behind, Richard Jervis, silvery-haired chief of the White House Secret Service, slipped into the front seat of the car, kept its door cracked and one hand on his pocketed pistol...
...famed Albie Booth was on his 1931 team-bas-ketball has grown so popular at Yale that the 2,200 handsome chairs in the new Payne Whitney Gymnasium are not enough for the crowds. Next year the chairs may be taken out to make room for enough benches to seat...
...furnished, and well-supplied with current magazines and newspapers. Because of its size, it is well-suited for the tea dances that are held after the major football games in the fall, and for a formal dinner held before the Winter Dance. The Dining Room is large enough to seat the entire House. There are no special tables for tutors, thus allowing undergraduates and tutors to dine together as they wish. It is in this room that the Winter dances have been held the last two years...
...bourgeoisie who have handed him his carte blanche with so little fuss. Strangely enough the French seem quite surprised at the outcome. This attitude is certainly naive, for despite all their pious and doubtless sincere God-forbids, they have been instrumental in putting Comrade Hitler in his seat of power...
American Dream gets in its most heavy-handed propagandist licks when the contemporary Daniel, a parlor pink with just enough genuine instincts left in him to know that his life is abominably warped, returns to the seat of his ancestors. Daniel (blond Douglass Montgomery who was also Daniel in Act I) futilely protests against his own social sphere by wearing turtleneck sweaters and dirty tennis shoes. He has also written a book on the New Economics...