Word: seatful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...passed two years ago under the Curley regime, were revealed when, during the debate before the roll call, Representative Russell intimated that pressure had been put on him from the gubernatorial office to fight for the retention of the bill. Because he was ordered to his seat by the Speaker, Russell had no time to present his arguments...
...pilot about to take off from Newark Airport with a load of passengers in a Douglas DC-3, discovered in time's nick that his controls were jammed. Cutting his motors for an immediate investigation, he discovered that his radio microphone had fallen off its hook by the seat into the V-shaped well in the wall between the movable control column and the fixed structural parts of the cockpit. Grim-faced at his narrow escape from tragedy, the pilot told his employers about it. They at once passed the word to other lines using...
Best chance to see the King & Queen without having to buy a seat is on May 19, when Their Majesties drive nearly three miles across town from Buckingham Palace to lunch with the Lord Mayor at Guildhall. One may catch a local cruise boat next day to go to the Royal Naval Review at Spithead...
Sight Unseen. A seat anywhere along the Coronation Procession route (see map), and there are 23 miles of grandstand seats, schedules the sitter to see the King & Queen bowling along in their golden Coach of State. After leaving Westminster Abbey the King will be wearing the Imperial State Crown. Other members of the Royal Family will be in open landaus or limousines as will foreign Crown Princes, Special Envoys, Ambassadors. Necessarily the Procession is all that the public can possibly be shown, for the Coronation must take place inside the Abbey. About 15,000 subjects of the King have...
...season ticket, priced at $5.50, will be sold for one seat reserved for the season in Section 38, 39, 40, etc., and, as in the case of the $8.80 ticket book, will provide seats for the Spring-field, Brown, Dartmouth, Army, and Davidson games only, as the Princeton and Navy games will not be played on Soldiers Field...