Word: sit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, 85, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, son of the famed poet and essayist: "Many times during my summer vacation at Beverly Farms, Mass., I had to sit docilely while my portrait was being painted. It is not done yet. I became impatient, demanded: 'How long will this continue? I have something else to do.' Then my wife told the painter: 'Pay no attention to him. Go right ahead and take as long as you like. If he were not here with you he would be over there in the corner reading naughty French...
...design for the New Supreme Court Building by the late Henry Bacon. Henry Bacon also designed the Lincoln Memorial, and his plans for the judicial, structure embodies the same stately simplicity and dignity as the marble tribute to the Great Emancipator. But this session the Court will sit in its historic little room in the middle of the Capitol...
...British bishops are entitled to be addressed as "my lord." Besides the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, the Bishops of London, Durham, Winchester, have permanent seats in the House of Lords. Twenty-one other bishops sit by ecclesiastical election...
...change has been made in the arrangements for the dance which are distinct improvements over last year. The Room for sitting out dances has been provided with comfortable chairs where couples may sit and listen to the music without the disadvantage of a crowd around them. Plans are also made to throw open the porch for dancing, provided the day is warm enough...
...sit at my rebuilt Remington and pound out a few words of greeting to my old friends and, I trust, even more new ones, there wells up within me a very real feeling of emotion. I'm like that. Beneath a rough exterior lurks, and always has lurked a vein of sentiment. Even in those early days back in Shemokin, Pa., they told me I would never get very far because I was such a sentimental cuss. And now look at me--but that is another story...