Word: sit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recorded that a specialist at one of the great Army hospitals once told Queen Mary of a man whose face was entirely disfigured, and who in consequence had brooded until he was almost mad. If Her Majesty would sit and talk with the wounded man, concealing her repugnance, perhaps he would believe his disfigurement bearable, would cease to brood into madness...
...expound a subject in its simplest terms, putting caricaturist's emphasis on one or two superficial details. Example: "According to Dr. Max Hartmann . . . there is no such thing as absolute sex. If 60% of your cells are masculine you rate as a male. If 60% are feminine, you sit with the girls. All combinations are possible up to 99 and 1, but the 100 percenter is a myth. Dr. Hartmann says...
...great metropolis which displays so much of poverty's backwash-tired women in frayed dresses of years ago, old men who capture a smoke from discarded stubs of cigars." The home will be "a place for those who cling miserably to vacant seats on park benches, who sit all day in branch libraries reading endless newspapers, and who, sometimes, when fortune favors them, get a chance to carry huge advertisements for cheap trousers or tumbledown restaurants on their backs...
...crowd of tittering street dolls and foyer sheiks. He entered a Childs' restaurant nearby, sat down, ordered a meal. The crowd persisted in peering at him through the window; some of them entered the restaurant and ordered a glass of milk or a cracker in order to sit near him; waitresses in the restaurant whispered behind their hands...
state of Washington) said "Sit down" when George T. McCoy, secretary of the State Highway Commission, began to read minutes of a previous commission meeting. Mr. McCoy continued reading. "Humes, throw him out," said Governor Hartley to Highway Engineer Humes. Mr. McCoy continued reading. Mr. Humes threw...