Word: seated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...medium. Secondly there are the contacts with prominent University officials and news sources. Then there is the required ability to concentrate, and to budget one's time in order to make the ends of competition and study meet. And finally there may be the primrose bed, the seat of the mighty, of the domineering Legrees who call themselves editors; and with that position all the accoutrements of authority, of social life, of free movies and plays...
...embarrassing promptness. It just missed colliding in the hallway with President Hoover and his aides as they hustled to the Red Room to receive their callers. Beneath a fine Federalist cut-glass chandelier President Hoover sat down on a plum-colored velvet couch. Mr. Roosevelt was nodded into a seat beside him. Secretaries Stimson and Mills, Democrat Norman Hezekiah Davis and Professor Raymond Moley distributed themselves nearby. Mr. Hoover, as usual, took a cigar. Mr. Roosevelt, as usual, took a cigaret...
...realize last week how ardently it is turning back toward him. Only last fortnight Wilhelm II's fourth son, Prince August ("Auwi") Wilhelm, was commanded by his father to quit the Fascist Party. Ignoring this command "Auwi." who is a Fascist Deputy in the Prussian Diet, took his seat last week during the uproar about hoisting the Imperial flag, cast his Hohenzollern vote to keep it flying...
...Seattle, two passengers on a moving trolley quietly & quickly took out electric light bulbs, unscrewed brass fixtures, doorknobs, seat handgrips. Another passenger yelled to the conductor: "They're taking your trolley to pieces." The trolley stopped. The filchers fled...
...tobacco company at Winston-Salem, N. C. Two years after his birth in 1911, his father's tobacco company gave birth to the first package of Camels. While Zachary Smith Reynolds was growing up, a weak-chinned, moody child at his family's elaborate 600-acre country seat, "Reynolda," the U. S. entered the War. Out of the War came mass-smoking of cigarets, with Camels a U. S. favorite. In 1918, the year "R. J." died, Reynolds were producing more than 20,000,000,000. This accounted for the trust fund...