Word: seated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Needles. A. F. of L.'s William Green therefore declined to grace the opening, planned to go on a later night. John L. Lewis then found that he could not attend and canceled his booking. When the first night curtain went up, William Green was in a box seat...
...Simpson had raced to Washington by milk train and plane from Albany, after a night session of his State executive committee at which he had fought for the National Committee seat of Charles Dewey Hilles. retired. Mr. Simpson's failure to elect Tom Dewey by getting out a bigger New York City vote for him was one of the reasons the State committee was reluctant to nominate him for the national body. Other reason was the method he had chosen to get out such city votes as he did: he had "played ball" with the local American Labor Party...
...Representative Arthur W. Mitchell of Chicago, only Negro member of Congress, last week lost his case before ICC against Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway for kicking him out of a Pullman seat when one of its trains entered Arkansas, making him ride in a Jim Crow day coach (TIME, May 24, 1937). ICC ruled that demand for Pullman accommodations by Negroes is so small it would be unfair to ask railroads to Supply separate Pullmans so as to comply with local Jim Crow laws...
...sooner had they escaped the floods than worse disaster loomed. In the hills the soaked ground gave way here & there, slipped with a roar into the valleys. Panic-stricken natives now hunted for slopes that would not slide. The alarmed British administration at Castries, the island's seat, conscripted gangs of banana and sugar plantation laborers to keep communications open, evacuate the people to the coast. The rains fell harder. As though the soil were determined to wash back into the sea, avalanches of St. Lucia's black clay poured off the high ground. They blotted out roads...
...such high intensity that it almost blows out a fuse on its first page. Opening sentence: "No longer does the thoroughbred stallion snort under my loins," which means that Michael is home from the War. Michael goes to Heidelberg, grows lyric about a blonde maiden in the seat ahead: "Do I love Herta Hoik?" he asks himself. "I almost shudder at the crudeness of this word." But when she sends him a red rose: "Herta Hoik, I love you! I transform my little room into a royal palace...