Word: sit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alexander Woollcott: "One can sit through without boredom and leave without cheering...
...certain amours which are not comme il faut for a royal prince. This party is not reputed to be serious in its contentions. As brother of the Duc d'Orléans he is, of course, heir-apparent to the non-existent French throne. If he tries to sit on this hallucinatory chair, the French will have great respect for his royal dignity by removing him from such temptation under the law of 1886, which prescribes banishment for life for a Pretender to the throne of France. In this event Monsieur F. F. P. M. L. of Orleans will...
...world is about to sit in on the solution of the ancient problem of what happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable barrier. Luis Angel Firpo, Argentine heavyweight boxer, has demonstrated his irresistibility on several notable occasions. William Harrison Dempsey, American heavyweight, has sat immovable on the stool reserved for world's champions since July...
Back from Europe on the Hamburg-American liner, Albert Ballin, came Victor L. Berger, the only Socialist who will sit in the next Congress. (The only Socialist in the last Congress was Meyer London of Manhattan.) Berger will represent the fifth Wisconsin District (Milwaukee)?which he has done before by successful appeals to the Socialist, pro-German and wet sympathizers in his district. During the War he was ejected from Congress and sentenced to 20 years in prison under the Espionage...
...stages of infantile paralysis (anterior poliomyelitis) was tried out at the Northwestern University Medical School and used by the Visiting Nurses' Assocciation of Chicago. Graded exercises for the children's paralyzed limbs are performed in a large circular tank partly filled with shallow, tepid water. The children sit on a circular bench in the tank with their legs immersed for several hours at a time. The device was suggested by a woman whose little daughter, crippled by the disease, was taken to Florida and allowed to spend much time in the warm water at the beach. The child...