Word: sit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington, a man named Roy A. Young presides day by day over the Federal Reserve Board, central authority of the twelve regional banks. In Chicago, Minneapolis, Atlanta, sit Governors with as much authority as clothes the Governor of New York's bank. But when Benjamin Strong, lean, nervous, enters the doors of the Bank of England, or when Benjamin Strong, ill, receives the foreign chiefs in Manhattan, no Wall Streeter thinks of the quiet, unostentatious figure in the Treasury building's spacious offices. And certainly no Streeter thinks of such an untraveled, provincial person as a banker...
Workpeople who have been employed 40 years by the Imperial Tobacco Co. Ltd. of Bristol, England, are sent to sit for their portraits in oils and these are hung in the corporation's Hall of Honor...
...Infantas on the seaside at smart Santander. Her Majesty, a granddaughter of Britain's late Queen Victoria, would be pleased to hear the gossip of her native Court, pleased too that King Alfonso had "seen his tailor" in Savile Row so successfully. The tall Infantas would sit upon their taller father's knees like little girls, playing with his mustachios, for their upbringing has been old-fashioned and they are still naïve. To arrive peevishly at Castle Magdalena would have been totally impossible...
...Wildwood, N. J., a fish hawk whose nest was near the Country Club fell intc the habit "of soaring low over the golf links and clutching up a white ball now and then. Flapping slowly back to its nest, it would add the balls to a growing collection and sit on them, content. Perhaps it was the sport of capturing; perhaps the instinct for collecting (as crows and magpies will collect shiny or sparkling trash...
...astonished to find omitted this week both from the Religion and the International departments an event of great significance in the religious world, viz., the visit to this country of the British Congregationalists on their twentieth century good will Pilgrimage. Could you have been privileged to sit at the banquet in the Hotel Astor the night of Friday June 15 and listen to the thrilling addresses so expressive of British-American fellowship and peace made by men like Fred B. Smith, S. Parkes Cadman, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Charles E. Burton and Clarence Hall Wilson (Americans) and Alfred G. Sleep...