Word: sit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...since you seem so prepossessing Why you sit there keeps me guessing: If sitting bores you, lady--why not stand...
Only the Living Room was used at last year's Spring Dance, and the Reading Room was reserved for those who wished to sit out. It has not been decided whether the same plan will be followed this year...
...Somerset to experience the chaste pleasure of his first Friday evening, and next year rises higher to coming out parties in the gilded salon above, and proceeds to the ocean of engraved cards of Junior year takes a fairly thorough course in the social graces. He learns to sit down without thought of his coat-tail; he has to be able to tell what he thinks of Koussevitsky; he learns the proper interjections into a discourse that is beyond him. Quite naturally then, he comes by all Mrs. Post and Mr. Hubbard might teach...
...amativeness" which will enable him to arise promptly with the twitterings of his alarm clock, breast the tempestuous waves of the great open spaces of the Westmorly swimming pool, and increase the amount of his breakfast by a quarter of a dollar. Bright eyed and mentally alert he can sit through all his lectures with one eye on his watch, the other on the window whence come signs of spring, and his mind's eye visualizing a yacht on the blue or a shack in the clouds. Even the dullest of subjects will fail to induce sleep...
...April 20, from Connecticut to China, from Australia to Alaska, alumni of Yale University will sit down to a "round the world" dinner celebration, which will be the first event of its kind to be held. Invitations are now being sent to more tan 30000 graduates and former students residing in 66 foreign countries and dependencies of the United States...