Word: seatful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reasonableness throughout the strike, Mr. Sloan decided to get tough, flatly rejected Secretary of Labor Perkins' summons to a further Washington peace parley. As if they were playing a game of "Going to Jerusalem," a second principal in the deadly serious Automobile War of 1937 lost his seat in the New Deal's favor...
Infantryman Clegg had a box seat. The Revenge happened to be the sixth ship of Admiral Jellicoe's line of battle and the third to open fire. Five days after the battle, Ernest Clegg returned to France. Three weeks later he was severely wounded in the Battle of the Somme. In November 1918 his friend Captain Kiddle invited him out to the Revenge again to witness the surrender of the German Navy...
Disillusioned thus, the first-night audience, which paid $10 per seat, soon was disillusioned about the picture's other an nounced qualifications. Despite the rec ommendations of Europe and Venice, The Robber Symphony is an incredibly inept execution of a brilliant idea...
...give any details I can of my encounter with 'Jim' Sullivan. ... I knocked him out in just under six rounds. I had a broken hand when I did it. . ... It was kept a most extraordinary secret." Leftist voters of Lille elected to fill the French Chamber seat of Roger Salengro, Minister of Interior who killed himself after the Rightist press hounded him as a War deserter, his hitherto obscure brother Henri, a small-town politician. Claiming she had refrained from remarrying in 1907 on the promise of the late Vicar General John Joseph Dunn of the Roman Catholic...
...shrewd speculator can acquire valuable privileges by buying a seat on the Stock Exchange. Its copyright title is derived from a card game called Make a Million, in which the pack contains bull and bear cards. Jury Box is an effort to combine in practical form the sadistic appeal of crime stories with the masochistic fascination of the puzzle. It is a box of six envelopes, each of which contains a description of, and all the material necessary for, the solution of a serious crime. The host acts as district attorney, passes out evidence to his guests, who form...