Word: sit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that Ramsay MacDonald has accepted the king's invitation to form a cabinet, England will have its first labor government which is not in a minority. Even with only a coalition government the Labor Party showed a few years ago that it was able to do more than sit on the minority bench, and now that it is in a semi-independent position it will undoubtedly be able to put on a much stronger front...
Sirs: I like you fine! Every Saturday night I sit up till 12 o'clock to read you through. Tonight I am pausing at page 10, to ask if somebody, somewhere, can't unearth a few new stories about Mrs. Hoover? These that have been served up since before the campaign began are getting somewhat antiquated?awfully so! The Carboniferous rock age story, the Boxer bullets, the £70 purse tossed in London, the drives across from Iowa to California and back, the no jewelry and always low heels, were all good in their day; but now that...
Fifty thousand people sat in New York City's Yankee Stadium, where 50,000 people have sat before and will sit again. The sky was blue, the crowd was happy. It was a Sunday ball game. Suddenly, without warning, clouds appeared, thunder clapped, rain poured down. Straw hats, spring clothes were in danger. The bleacherites arose en masse and rushed for the wire-lined exits. The exits were small, the rushers many. In the right-field bleacher section, called "Ruthville" because George Herman ("Babe") Ruth knocks most of his homeruns there, a young girl and an old man were...
...have been elected will hold their first meeting in the Straus Hall Common Room at 6.30 o'clock tomorrow evening. At this meeting five additional members will be chosen to sit in the complete council...
Against the Senate's inquiry, parliamentarians raised this point: Had Mr. Mellon been called and questioned and his case carried to the Senate floor, the Senate would have automatically disqualified itself to sit in judgment in the event the House of Representatives had impeached Mr. Mellon...