Word: sit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nominee Hoover took an afternoon off and went to a ball game. It was the New York "Yankees," American League leaders, visiting the Washington "Senators." The Nominee sat himself down in Club-President Clark Griffith's box-the box where Presidents sit at Washington ball games. He was scarcely conscious of an event which feature-writers made into the sensation...
...understudy of Providence and deliver pronouncements which are nothing but the expression of his private prejudices . . . reflecting a mixture of prejudice, naivete, ignorance and abuse of power difficult to match . . . not only merits the severest reprimand, but raises a grave question of his fitness to sit on the bench anywhere in America...
...foyers, away from the mass meetings, the men discussed what to do with prudish or amorous women patients. The best conduct, by general approval, is to treat the woman impersonally, as if she were a mere head of beef. Let the prude bring in a companion; let the companion sit guard in an uncomfortable iron chair. Many women become amorous as they recline in the dentist's chair. The prudent dentist hurts such patients enough to make them forget their involuntary eroticism. All agreed that the practitioner who coos to female clients is a fool...
...American Chamber of Commerce at Paris, and a half dozen more expatriate U. S. lawyers as especial objects of his wrath. As a first and most vital precaution Registrar Chipot of the Civil Court was placed on trial, last week, before all the 119 Magistrates entitled to sit upon that high tribunal. Registrar Chipot is entitled to charge 10 francs (40?) for "handling and filing" divorce papers; but he was gravely accused of accepting as much as 20 or even 25 francs (80? or $1) as an illegal fee or bribe for "expediting" the papers. Piteously M. Le Registrar Chipot...
...fill the silences which today humans cannot face. People are terrified of silences, so they have music and I consider it a great insult to music." Here the musical knight drew breath and a jazz-orchestra began bleating in the next room. Said he: "That finishes it, and I sit down...