Word: seated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these, only Major County, up on the Cimarron River near the Kansas border, failed this autumn to vote the Democratic ticket for President and Senator. Last week at Major's county seat of Fairview, which lies on the main line of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R., Gerald Vincent Underwood, publisher, and Cass Alonzo Carr, editor of the Fairview Republican, took matters into their own hands. Announced they in their paper...
...British Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley, whose party holds not a single seat in Parliament, cracked back from his five-story Fascist Headquarters Building: "We demand that Simon produce his evidence. It is utterly untrue that the British Union of Fascists receives money from foreign sources! This looks to me like part of a frame-up by Parliament to get their bill through and fix Fascism if they...
...bringing the capacities of production and the requirements of consumption together so that the whole world can enjoy the advantages made available by the machine." That this solution will be realized in a libertarian Utopia is far from Mr. Miller's mind. After 24 years in "a grandstand seat at the most momentous show in history," his tortured conclusion is that "the price the world must pay-and is already paying- for the material advantages of the modern machine is increasingly greater curtailment and restriction of the personal liberty of people. . . . Under authoritarian governments in which one man virtually...
...Bowl. Gulping excitement before the game that lasted till Yale's second score and then died into despair but came bounding back again with the second-half surge. My voice gone midway the third period, creaking come on, come on, come on, come on. An Eli somehow in the seat ahead of us. One blue feather in a sea of crimson. Pummelling the Eli when we got our second touchdown...
...Godfrey" is the apogee of madness, and it succeeds for one very good reason; Carole Lombard. As you sit there helplessly in your seat, dissolved in hilarity, you are likely to begin attributing your shameful condition to William Powell or to the drunk who wrote the lines. But it's no good passing the buck. The latter two factors contribute considerable shares, to be sure, but Carole's the crux of the excruciation. You may have seen her often before (she's been in pictures more years than she likes to count), and never liked...