Word: seated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hats and demanded "Where is Dr. Wieland?" Consternation smote the party and a frantic search for Yale's forgotten man ensued. He was eventually found at his modest Woodmont cottage, seven miles out of town (no telephone) , rushed into his best suit, to Memorial Hall, and into a seat next to the Prince (at the Prince's insistence). The conversation presented pretty tough going for the local elite and even for the President and Fellows, for it dealt almost exclusively with fossil cycads (in which the Prince, like Dr. Wieland, had an ardent interest). The guests could hardly...
...whipped smartly by the breeze. Without warning, about 50 miles from Shanghai, a Japanese plane zoomed down to within 20 yards of the first car, riddled it with machine-gun fire. The driver. Colonel W. A. Lovat-Fraser, British Military Attaché, stopped. Slumped in the back seat, with blood gushing from his middle was 51-year-old, baldish Sir Hughe Montgomery ("Snatch") Knatchbull-Hugesson, Britain's Ambassador to China, one of her smartest & youngest diplomats. His back was broken; he had been hit in the liver. So ended his errand: to visit Japanese Ambassador Shigeru Kawagoe at Shanghai...
...Jenks's opponent in the Republican primaries, suggested a recount. This gave the election to Democrat Roy by 17 votes. Next Candidate Jenks demanded a recount of the recount. This showed Jenks to be the winner by a margin of ten. He went to Washington and took his seat. Finally the matter went to the House Election Committee...
...House Election Committee consists of six Democrats arid three Republicans. No surprise, therefore, was the Committee's vote last fortnight. 6-to-3 to unseat Jenks, give his seat to Roy. A surprise followed last week, a House vote rejected the Committee's decision. With 144 Democrats siding with Republicans, the House voted 231-10-130 to send the question back to Committee with unprecedented instructions: to take the individual testimony of 458 voters of the town of Newton, for 30 of the ballots which they cast have been lost, 34 ballots originally tallied for Jenks By actual...
...Manhattan, one Max Berger, 70, stepped into an East Side subway at 125th St. carrying under his arm a live chicken. Intended for his dinner, it had been presented to him by his sweetheart. Forthright little Mr. Berger plumped himself down into a seat and began to pluck feathers from the chicken's hind quarters, reciting, presumably: "She loves me, she loves me not," to the accompaniment of horrified squawks from the chicken. Presently a Brooklyn passenger named Kay Nelson protested to Mr. Berger. Mr. Berger reassured Mr. Nelson. Said he, "I am only taking off the feathers because...