Word: seated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been continued for two more terms. A scholarly jurist whose off-bench fun is farming at Niantic, Conn., Justice McCook has a kindly face and manner which belie the fighting spirit that won him a D. S. C. in France at 45, and a fight with Tammany for his seat on the bench. Last week when defense attorneys in the current restaurant racket trial suggested that he disqualify himself from presiding because he had shown "unconscious or subconscious" prejudice in favor of Prosecutor Dewey, the rubicund justice smilingly consulted his "moral conscience," declined...
Once upon a time one of Professor Merriman's unofficial colleagues was taking a course. Regularly he appeared in class, sat slumped in his seat for the hour, made some scrawls in his notebook, and sauntered off to pass the evening at the fashionable watering spots of metropolitan Boston...
Inside there had been no warning, but the ten passengers were strapped to their seats ready for the landing at Burbank. As Passenger Arthur Robinson recalled: "Suddenly the plane began to drop-drop. Then there was a terrible crash. My seat belt kept me in my seat. I didn't lose consciousness, but my leg and side hurt. I guess I was about the only one that wasn't knocked out." Passenger Robinson set off alone down the snow-spattered mountain, managed to stagger four miles to the Olive View Sanitarium despite a broken ankle. Inmates there...
...spoil one's enjoyment of "As You Like It" that she did not do. She spoke her lines with a heavy German accent, rendering at least half of them unintelligible. She simpered so with Celia (Sophie Stewart) (and Celia simpered back) that one squirmed in one's seat. She acted the part of Ganymede with great unreality, squealing and mincing so that an unfortunate stage convention became even more flimsy and unenjoyable than it is ordinarily to the modern eye. The tedium of her performance was relieved in only a few places, such as her advice to the shepherdess Phoebe...
Those who have long eyed the virgin territory of the reserved seat section, often wondered how many people successfully crash it. "Not many," said the usher. "After a while we learn to notice which reserved seats are filled and an experienced usher gets to know the set-up at a glance...