Word: seated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brain Trust: "A bunch of theoretical, intellectual, professional nincompoops from Columbia University." On the New Deal: "Spurious, sporadic, uncertain, unsound, unworkable, and unconstitutional." On the proposal to establish a Federal Fine Arts Commission: "I do not see how anybody can enjoy listening to the strains of Mendelssohn with the seat of his pants out." On President Roosevelt's promise that he did not want to become a dictator: "Assurances are not worth a continental when they come from men who care no more for their word than a tomcat cares for a marriage license in a back alley...
...machine by throwing out four of its most important cogs-Messrs Richard Frankensteen, Wyndham Mortimer, Ed Hall, George Addes-John L. Lewis sent Mechanics Murray and Hillman to Detroit to interfere. There they persuaded Mr. Martin to let them get up on the driver's seat, one on each side of him, to watch his driving (TIME, Sept. 26). Last week, having steered U. A. W. into a garage, in privacy behind closed doors they effected the repair most needed to make it run again: put back the four vital parts Mr. Martin had thrown...
...land, crowding even swing off the air, radio listeners last week did not hear two opponents debating (but not broadcasting) with poise and dignity from one platform in Marietta, Ohio. Republican Robert Alphonso Taft and Democrat Robert Johns Bulkley had agreed, while fighting for the latter's Senate seat, to hold at least six debates in the good old Lincoln-Douglas tradition...
...only intimate anecdotes are those which point to her husband's subtle tact, his priestlike devotion to his guests' whims. (According to his wife Ritz invented the slogan: "The customer is always right.") Such is the anecdote of a water closet specially altered for Edward VII (the seat was too low), of a lovers' quarrel patched up by a specially aromatic dinner...
Monitors are liable to sharp reprimand when a student who is reported absent is able to prove to the satisfaction of the Dean's office that he was present and in his right seat...