Word: seatful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only made it impossible for me to attend this showing, but also subjected numerous grandsons and granddaughters of de Lesseps to the same discourtesy. I was only able to see the film at the "premiere" by paying for my seat as did other spectators...
...Lesseps, who had to pay for a seat to see a dramatization of his famed father, TIME'S apologies for a mistake. Both M. de Lesseps and the Marques de Casa Fuerte, grandnephew of the Empress Eugenie, sought injunctions to have Suez suppressed in France. Last week, in a Paris court, the referee rejected both petitions on the ground that the film does not offend either ancestor "perniciously," contains "charming naïveties as well as inaccuracies...
Agent Wilson's report in Science: "This meteorite penetrated the roof of a frame garage and the top of a Pontiac coupe therein, making a neat hole in the cushion of the car to the right of the driver's seat. It also broke the floor board beneath the seat, and made a slight dent in the car's muffler. The meteorite itself, however, did not hit the ground, as it had become so entangled in the springs of the cushion that it was snapped back up into the cushion by the recoil of the springs...
Central figure in any investigation of Southern literary life is William Faulkner. This short, reticent Southerner, sharp-eyed as a gambler, lives about as close to the heart of the South as it is possible to get-in Oxford, Miss., a county seat of 2,890 people, 62 miles southeast of Memphis. Historically speaking, nothing much has happened to Oxford since the Yankees burned it 75 years ago. It has a courthouse square, which Mississippi-born Artist John McCrady painted in Town Square (see cut). It has its Confederate monument on which a soldier stands stonily at ease...
With more red tape out of the way, the approval of the President's nomination of the Professor Felix Frankfurter to the vacant seat on the Supreme Court Bench came closer to reality...