Word: sit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Acting before a Boston audience is like running up against a blank wall. The audience sit on their hands. They have cakes of ice in their pockets. They're awful! There aren't words enough in an actor's vocabulary to express his feelings about a Boston audience. At the start of a run in Boston, he says 'My God!' and at the end he says "Thank God." Then he leaves town and tries to forget about it as soon as possible...
...entirely new form this year. Yesterday's vote to amalgamate the two debating clubs brought an end to these two separate organization. Hereafter, Debating Union members will not support or oppose a question according as they are members of the Conservative or Progressive club, but each individual will sit to the right or to the left of the speaker according as he favors or disapproves of the question at hand...
This young-looking Filipino holds the post which was vacated by the astute Sergio Osmena who preferred to sit in the Philippine Senate under his brother politician, Quezon. It may have been that Osmena foresaw unprofitable struggles with Governor General Wood, and preferred to avoid a position of open leadership. At any rate, Roxas was made Speaker of the House and side by side with President Quezon of the Senate has opposed General Wood. Now he comes to Washington for the thankless task of trying to convince the Administration that the Philippines should be made independent. The political prognosticators prophesied...
...Bewly constituents made the most definite statement of his protectionist policy that he has so far uttered. He said he had come to the people to ask for relief from the late Premier Bonar Law's pledge*, because "no Government with any sense of responsibility could continue to sit with its head in its hands watching the unequal struggle of our industry or content itself with palliatives." He then explained the effect of his protectionist policy, which is a discriminatory tariff upon imports in favor of the British overseas nations...
...barred from that honor by lack of weight or lack of an inherent knack for playing the game. Day after day they must play opposite their friends with simulated emmity, and their exertions are more valuable as their opposition is more real. On Saturday afternoon, in civilian clothes, they sit on the sidelines twisting their felt hats out of shape in their anxiety and inability to help. These men under Coach Knox give the lie to the charge that there is no sport in college athletics: they exemplify, more nearly than it is often reached, a disinterested love...