Word: seatful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Schemer von Papen was more success ful in putting the skids under the German Republic. One of the last of the Republic's Chancellors, he wanted to get back into the driver's seat. With Junker sup port, he helped persuade President Paul von Hindenburg to appoint Adolf Hitler Chancellor, believing naively that the Fiihrer would become a figurehead and that he, von Papen, as Vice Chancellor would be the real power in a "Barons' Cabinet." Only hitch came when the Nazis, once in power, took the bit in their teeth and ignored Driver von Papen...
...fine, springy day in 1850 a gentleman named James Liddy, of Watertown, N. Y., went to a county fair in his surrey. It was a lousy fair and Mr. Liddy curled himself up on the seat of his surrey and went to sleep. When he awoke he felt remarkably refreshed, and he was smitten with an idea. He went home and forthwith invented the first bedsprings known...
Today is a nice but cloudy day-nice to go to a county fair and sleep on a surrey seat. Tomorrow it will likely rain-a good day to stay home and commune with Mr. Liddy's invention...
...chief criticism to make of their report in the confusing way in which the two writers keep shifting back and forth between straight narrative and editorial comment, so that the reader never knows when to expect the words of Sweezy, Harris, or Gilbert, and when mere back-seat driving by the rapporteurs...
...little red schoolhouse, which with the little white church formed the basis of the early West, is now doing a good deal better than the white church. In fact on the edge of one out of five typical western county seat towns, a small college has grown up with half a dozen buildings, a stadium, and cars parked all over the lot," he added...