Word: sit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...town; O. P. Heggie; and many another. Ladies are admitted to reception on Shakespeare's Birthday; also the spring evening when the annual Players all-star revival gives its last performance. Then, in the garden, supper is served and the cast and its invited actresses sit down in costumes of She Stoops to Conquer, The Rivals or perhaps Henry VI. There is no significance in this gathering; it is simply a custom of The Players, where the gentle riches of tradition prosper in seclusion. Some say the ghost of Booth that evening sits down at table...
...University of Minnesota, girl students linger after lectures to talk to the instructor. During class they sit near the professor's desk, giggle merrily at his pedagogical jests, smile understandingly at his well-known eccentricities, make their pretty eyes look deep and sympathetic when he comes to the point of his discourse. Thus do the wily coeds, whose actual intelligence measures but 25 on a scale of 100, compensate for a ten-point deficiency in intellect, and extract grades equal to those attained by charmless male students whose measure of intelligence on the same scale is 35. Authority...
...Officially the increase in the board must await confirmation of the stockholders who meet Nov. 10. Till then Messrs. Fisher and Bitten will sit in an advisory capacity on the board, Mr. Bitten on the finance committee also...
December 1st was provisionally set for the resumption of the commission's sessions and the U. S. was asked to continue to sit in on all meetings...
...ashamed, said "Let me go"; then with his fist he bashed Teacher Carroll's nose. When she screamed with pain and rage, teachers and pupils rushed into the hallway. Soon five policemen in blue coats ran through the door, the children ran back into their classrooms to sit primly at their desks, William Albertson ran home crying. Later he was arrested...