Word: sit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Trotzky spat on the chair where the Czarina used to sit. That made it emphatic when he said, "Quite right, Lenin." Then Lenin and Trotzky rang for ex-Prince Michael, who came in, stepping on the red rattlesnake embroidered in the carpet...
...infinite number of old roulette wheels hung along each wall together with boomerangs. Boomerangs were used to hit the "African Dodger" instead of baseballs in the old days. Then there is a toy ship for the kiddies, and sometimes there are moving pictures. As you come in you sit down on a chair, and some of the chairs are made with only three legs so that you often have just the surprise of your life. Out back of this pleasure palace, for those who wish to pay the price there is a really exciting peep-show. If you are lucky...
Among those who have accepted the Council's invitation to sit on the stage are Ex-Governor S. W. McCall, Mr. George Wigglesworth '74, President of the Board of Overseers, Consul General T. P. Porter, Vice-Consul A. H. Marlow of Great Britain, Consul J. C. Joseph Flamand of France, and former Mayor A. J. Peters '95 of Boston...
...advance of the public sales, and will not restrict either the number or the "personal use". Students now in the University must make their applications in person at the H. A. A. office and must call for their tickets during the five days preceeding each game. Persons wishing to sit together must file their applications together, but such applications will have the least chance of fulfilment. All Yale, Princeton, or Dartmouth men now or formerly attending any of the Harvard Schools must apply to their managements for the games with their universities...
...college,--it is possible to "sit like a pensive bucket and be pumped into" by an enthusiastic but sometimes tiring professor; and it is equally possible although more difficult to wrestle with the hands of the pump and get the benefit of the exercise...