Word: seatful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...UpPearson, is your seat--not Downs there...
...When the war began Britain's two big parties, Labor and Conservative, called a halt in politics, each party agreeing not to oppose the other in by-elections. If there were a Parliamentary vacancy of a seat formerly held by a Conservative, the Laborites agreed not to put up a candidate and vice versa. Last week, at a by-election in Glasgow, this idyllic state of affairs was impaired when Pacifist Andrew Stewart entered the race independently on a "Stop the War" platform against Laborite Arthur Woodburn, who supported the war. True to their pledge, the Conservatives...
...blooded Brill, infuriated at the slur on his name and "family seat at the Point", often was sent into an uncontrollable rage. It was well known that he had vowed to get retribution the next time the "slanderer," as he put it, was in the vicinity. When interviewed recently he admitted that he had never read "Wickford Point." "Grandfather wouldn't permit it in the house," he snorted...
...Ward 6 the voters called upon two fighting Irishmen, City Councilor Michael A. Sullivan and William (Call me 'BIH') Flanagan to continue their scrapping for the council seat until the final election on Tuesday, November...
...beauties ballyhoo a multitude of little things: soft front-seat edges for comfort, better insulation against road-rumble, trigger-release parking brakes, direction signals and warning signals for low gas & oil, hot motor, faulty ignition, etc. Pointing up comfort, safety, economy, new models are generally longer, lower, wider, roomier, with increased visibility and lots more chromium. Steering column gearshift relegates to the archives the old wobble-stick. Running boards are mostly optional. Air-conditioned heaters are highly favored...