Word: sit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will sit on them Presidential chair of Mexico which President Obregon has kept warm these past few years. At a dinner given to him by the Chamber of Commerce, Señor Calles, having eaten "busily of filet, partridge, salad and mousse," stood up to indicate the policy that his administration would follow. Enthusiastic applause greeted him. Standing with his back to the Stars and Stripes, his bulging shirtfront "full of chest," his chin sticking out "like a fist held in front of his face," the President-elect began : "Señores capitalistas," and continued in Spanish...
People who sit in the glittering horseshoes shoes of great opera houses, in the orchestras of famed concert halls, have cold faces, bright clothes. To brilliance, to frigidity runs their taste. Let a soprano pour out her soul in a fine frenzy of enthusiasm, they lift their eyebrows, clap and go away to their clubs or cabarets. But let her be a coloratura, let her sing with no emotion but with brilliance, with coldness, these cold, bright people in their turn give way to a fine frenzy of enthusiasm. Melba- they smothered her under mountains of flowers; Patti-they took...
Lothrop Withington buried, screamed and pounded a challenge to us, and here we sit and laugh saying: "One more or less won't hurt." It will, damn it! What would a team be if the players said: "One more or less...
...team, which is going to start against Princeton, will sit on the platform tonight. Lothrop Withington '11, captain and star tackle of the 1910 team will be the main speaker. Captain M. W. Greenough '25 will follow with a short talk for the members of the team...
...their reaction, but some degree of reaction will be a blessing. Nothing is more disillusioning than to see the descendants of roving warriors, who dangled from their waists the dripping scalps of whole colonies, clad in uncomfortable modern pants and tight modern shirts as they sit in the parlors of their cheap frame houses reading the society news in the "New York Times...