Word: sit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Admiral Evans I once said 'What an extraordinary way of entertaining one's guest-sit him down and make speeches at him.' In Boston, I humorously suggested shooting a particularly windy speaker. In Chicago, I was guarded by eight policemen, dressed both night and day in evening clothes, including silk hats. Perhaps never before or since has U. S. society been so excitedly adulatory...
...thoroughly enjoyable a play as I have seen in Boston for a long time. Anybody interested in forgetting hour examinations, or Princeton games, or for that matter, anything at all, can find no better or pleasanter way of doiag it than by spending some evening at the Repertory. Theatre, sitting in the soft-cushioned, well spaced, comfortable seats. I love a theatre with chairs instead of stocks to sit in. It makes it almost enjoyable to watch plays badly done, and I've had my chance to do that at the Repertory. But last night was different. Under the able...
When infidel newsgatherers sit down to describe The Day of Judgment, their accounts may perhaps resemble those which trickled over improvised wires last week from the Soviet Socialist Republic of Armenia, recently earthquake smitten (TIME...
...more hysterical note crept into Joseph Carson's voice. Jealousy gnawed. To shake it off, he blurted bitter taunts, taunts so childish that Prof. Buermeyer brushed them easily aside until he was bored, then dropped his woozy head and fell asleep. Infuriated, Philosopher Carson shouted at him to sit up and talk philosophy. The alcohol inflaming one mind had, however, quite numbed the other and not even a shoe, which Mr. Carson picked up and hurled, could revive the argument. Transported with drunken rage, Philosopher Carson sprang at the sleeper, raining blows with the shoe upon the lolling head...
...take a night off to listen to emotional outbursts of over-footballized epthusiasts? And why follow the mob, sit in a crowded room, and absorb the palpitating heart beats of the freshman sitting next to you, merely to hear the rather boring remarks about the necessity of winning the Harvard game this week-end? We were beaten by Yale last week and we may be beaten by Harvard on Saturday. But why get excited about...