Word: sit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...guests invited were Speaker Longworth and his popular, influential wife, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, onetime "Princess Alice" of the White House. Great is Mrs. Longworth's political prestige, great her social power, independent her behavior. She sent Mrs. Meyer her regrets, making it clear that she declined to sit below Mrs. Gann. Not to be outdone, Mrs. Gann and the Vice President, likewise stayed at home that evening...
Seated within a three-panel screen, an old Negro pulls a red plush cord to swing open a small door and admit you to the Supreme Court of the U. S. Mounting two steps around a partition, you come abruptly into the court chamber. Facing you sit the nine Justices of the U. S. seated augustly behind their long desk-like bench. You immediately identify Chief Justice Taft, ponderous in the centre. The small semicircular chamber is dimly lighted. Faces, features, are not sharp. Level voices fall without echo in the shadows...
Four Chinese soldiers armed with Mauser pistols stand on the running boards and cling by means of hand grips to the Packard sedan of President Chiang Kaishek. For good measure two more yellow-guards sit on the trunk rack behind, holding rifles with fixed bayonets...
...race Columbia's crew sat up very straight and flattened their oars as crews do when they finish first. Three lengths behind them the Navy men were still rowing. A little later they too flattened their oars but they did not bother to sit up straight. Still later, U. S. Subchaser No. 440, which had carried the Navy shells and oars from Annapolis to the Harlem River, took them back to Annapolis. Glendon Jr. did not answer his father's telegram. He merely remarked to questioners, "Oh, that's an old New England saying...
...picture of the Senior Class will be taken on the steps of Widener Library at 2 o'clock on Friday. The attendance of all Seniors, in caps and gowns, is required. No man will be permitted to sit in the picture without his cap and gown...