Word: sit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...least, last August, when he dropped in at Plymouth, Vermont, to see the President, he said he didn't care to be present." Here was news, if only a wee bit. Senator Harding, during his campaign in 1920, announced that he would, if elected, invite Governor Coolidge to sit in the Cabinet. Some 7,000.000 votes decided that Vice President Coolidge should do so, and he did. So the precedent was set. Now it seems ready to be broken. Political tongues wag: "Let me see-it was August when General Dawes visited President Coolidge at Plymouth. The campaign...
...Burton K. Wheeler, onetime Vice Presidential candidate on the LaFollette ticket, proclaimed on returning to Washington: "I am a Democrat and never ceased to be a Democrat." Governor-Elect Ferguson of Texas: 1) announced that there would be dancing at the inauguration but that she would "sit out"; 2) sent to Manhattan for two new gowns, one for the inauguration, the other for the official reception...
...opening speech, Mussolini paid tribute to the murdered Deputies Matteotti and Casalini and to the recently deceased General Ricciotti Garibaldi, son of the great Liberator. After resuming his seat, the leader of the Communists arose to inform the Chamber that his Party would not sit in the present Parliament. He made himself objectionable-so much so that a mighty, muscular Fascist towered over him with menacing fists, shouting: "I don't hit because the mere sight of you makes me sick." A fight was avoided; and a few minutes later, the Communist concluded his speech and led his followers...
...unthinkable and impossible to imagine that the real Americans of the type who made this country, such as Washington, Franklin, Jefferson or Monroe, or the devout and God-fearing Pilgrims who preceded them, should voluntarily sit and watch corpulent Italian, Spanish, French or German aliens and a few Americans, trained in Europe and alienized, enacting, upon the stage, scenes of Latin passion, seductions, betrayals, murders, assassinations, insanity, jealousy, disease and death. The horrible nature of operatic librettos is intensified by poignant, passionate music, acting and singing. The American mind, even in its worst phases, cannot produce a genuine grand opera...
Manager J. C. Collins plans to take the full week for the trip to New York. The team will leave Cambridge on Saturday morning and stop off at New Haven that afternoon where they will sit in a group at the Harvard-Yale game. That evening they will journey on to New York, where they will spend the night at the Hotel Vanderbilt. On Sunday morning they will walk over the Van Courtland course to get an idea of the lay of the land. The next 24 hours will be devoted to rest and relaxation for the team...