Word: sit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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MELODRAMA THE TRIAL OF MARY DUGAN?A court room in which the world may sit in judgment on beauty and the beast...
...stroke of noon, President Plutarco Elias Calles entered the ambassador's salon to receive Mr. Morrow's credentials, hear his speech and make reply. By coincidence, each spoke exactly 170 words, Mr. Morrow in English, President Calles in Spanish. President Calles asked Mr. Morrow to sit down for a few moments and converse-through an interpreter. Then the cavalcade wound back to the U. S. Embassy...
...Mayor" Holmes strolled away and made a speech himself. "I'm Mayor of Indianapolis, but I do not propose to function or interfere in any way with Mayor Negley till 10 o'clock tomorrow. Then I'll say to him: 'Come on over and sit down, Claude...
...shall sit on the 50 yard line with a red helmet and if it is a pleasant day I expect to wear silk pants...
THAT MAN HEINE?Lewis Browne?Macmillan ($3). Heinrich Heine, probably Germany's greatest lyric poet, was born in the ghetto of Dusseldorf on the Rhine. Tortured at school by little boys who aped the cruelties of their elders, he would sit in his uncle's library for long afternoons, the cry of the dark streets a far tumult, while the words that he read stirred a music in his mind. He grew up vain, erratic and melancholy, visited by visions of a strange beauty with which he informed his gay or bitter verses. As he waited for the death that...