Word: sit
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Premier Poincaré, replying to criticism on Government inaction, reproved the long-winded oratory of his opponents. Said he: "The best way to help the Government govern and increase production is not to force it to sit here morning, noon and night...
...taking his sabbatical leave of absence and would be giving no courses during the ensuing college year. Doubtless some curiosity arose in the minds of these patient souls as to the character and personality of this man, at whose feet all the initiated were apparently so eager to sit. What did he do? What was his peculiar charm? Why this universal disappointment at his withdrawal? Freshmen will have an opportunity to learn these things at Professor Copeland's reading at the Union on Monday...
...LADY?An old-time melodrama that you cannot possibly believe, but cannot possibly sit through unemotionally...
Disestablishment of the Church of England by the Labor Government is a subject of conversation. It would deprive the Anglican Church of its privileged position. Its Bishops would no longer sit in the House of Lords, nor would the Archbishop of Canterbury rank before all the peers of the realm after the royal princes...
...closing, we can't help remarking again that there are many pitiful gaps that need filling. And it is positively shameful to sit through a whole evening without hearing a single musical number that could be called even "tuneful...