Word: sit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Among the innumerable host of Democrats who sit patiently at the feet of a Presidential nomination is a gentleman from New York...
...American that we have our own Robert Bridges, who was born in 1858 at Shippensburg, Pa.; he is a most genial, attractive, popular gentleman, editor and poet. That Mr. Robert Bridges, American, editor of Scribner's, clubman, author of Bramble Brae, admirer of Roosevelt, was going to sit as a godhead on Ann Arbor campus seemed rather absurd when I heard it. How unhappy, to be sure, he would be; but then, I found I was mistaken. It was the Poet Laureate of England, imported for the little middle-western boys and girls to gaze upon...
...Horseshoe" seats in Alexander Hall are reserved for Seniors. All Sophomores and Freshmen must sit in the balcony...
...Haven, Yale Freshmen are not permitted to sit in the orchestra of Shubert's theatre, or to eat in Morey's restaurant. They must not enter the Hotel Garde, and must carry matches at all times for the convenience of upperclassmen. Freshmen are forbidden to sit on the Sophomore fence, except on the day of the Yale-Harvard Freshman baseball game when Yale wins. They are excluded from the Junior Prom, and only seniors are allowed to go without a hat, or to play marbles...
...went there through an invitation I had received after attending a dinner in Boston, and arriving late, I did not even sit with Mayor Curley and his party. I had no voice in the decision that censored certain features in 'Sophie' as undesirable...