Word: sit
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...again, I'll scream. No one hates the Roman Pope more than I do, but this constant repetition is getting nerve-wrecking. If you must explain this not wholly unique hobby of Senator Heflin's, whenever you write his name, for God's sake sit down and compose fifty or more variations of the phrase ". . . who mortally (I can't bear to write it) . . ." and then schedule them for successive mentions of Heflin's name...
...collapse about the third day, when most deaths occur. During the collapse the face turns black, the skin becomes dry and hard, the voice fades. Early and extreme rigidity of the corpse is a striking feature of cholera and the origin of much superstition. Frequently the corpse will sit bolt upright on the stretcher as it is being carried to the morgue, or rise on its cot at home...
...especially hot day, they left the boat in the sedges by the river and went to sit near a hayrick where it was shady. Alice, who was sometimes a little brash in her behavior, wanted someone to tell her a story. So Mr. Dodgson began it, while the sleepy children listened. "Alice," he said, "was getting very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank and having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading but it had no pictures or conversations in it, 'and what...
...address goes to an audience of 30,000,000 the contagion of the crowd is gone. The magnetism of the orator cools when transmitted through the microphone. The impassioned gesture swings through unseeing space. The purple period fades in color; the flashing eye meets no answering glance. . . . We sit in our library, in a room where we are accustomed to study and reflect, where all the surroundings are natural. When we there hear the same man speak we know him better than we could in the crowd. The very tones of his voice, quiet and deliberate...
...leader of the Republican faction that is fighting to oust the incumbent administration of Mayor Thompson, State's Attorney Crowe, Governor Len Small, plus Frank L. Smith who is again running for the seat in the U. S. Senate in which he was not permitted to sit. The "better element" and all the Chicago newspapers (except the two Hearst papers) say the Thompson-Crowe-Small-Smith faction is vile, vicious, responsible for Chicago's maladies. But, curiously enough, the maligned fellows have a habit of winning elections. It does not matter that, in 1924, Mr. Crowe called...