Word: seatful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...took his familiar witness' seat in the air-cooled Ways & Means Committee room, Henry Morgenthau had a nine-page statement all ready. In his resonant baritone voice the Gentleman Farmer who is Franklin Roosevelt's chief fiscal agent read off, without specifically recommending anything, the list of questions which Congress might "wish to re-examine...
When Tom Pendergast appeared in court with Tom Jr., his nephew James, and two attorneys, his mind was made up, his face was flushed. With what dignity remained to him, he took a seat before Federal Judge Merrill E. Otis, let his lawyers speak for him: guilty on both counts...
...Investigation, cabled Director Loew-Beer. Presently she received a reply. The director, still in smuggling mood, had addressed the throne to a friend in Oakland, Calif., which he innocently assumed was a suburb of New York. Mrs. Roosevelt and Holland America Line officials looked some more, found the imperial seat, not yet forwarded to "suburban" Oakland, in a crate on a dock in Hoboken, N. J. Last week the throne went on view, along with some 40 other objects, in Manhattan's Arden Gallery...
...correspondent, however, matched the eloquence of the Toronto Globe and Mail's, Royd Beamish, who wrote of the Royal Banquet at Quebec: " 'Neath the turreted roof of a Norman castle, where once the Canada of long ago had its seat of Government, the King and Queen had dined [from the breasts of 2,000 snowbirds]. . . . The wine glasses were filled and Lieutenant-Governor Patenaude stood to propose the age-old toast, heard nightly across one-fourth the globe: 'Gentlemen, the King.' . . . From some far corner of that spacious ballroom a strong male voice sounded, rich...
...dyspeptic humors with tasty compliments, sparkled wittily for his friends, never complained of poverty or the isolation of dismal winters on the godforsaken farm at Craigenputtock, kept her mouth shut when he was talking, swallowed her humiliation when he spent his evenings with Lady Ashburton, took a back seat for 40 years, and in the end convinced Victorian contemporaries that the Carlyle marriage was a gruff idyl. Her reward was the affectionate petname "Goody," the company of famous men, her husband's fame...