Word: sit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Socialist Vienna. Heimwehr troops with pistol and bludgeon would then keep the Socialist Deputies from, attending. In their absence the desired amendment would easily pass. By way of pretense that this solution would be legal, the Reichspost quoted Article XXV of the Austrian Constitution: "Under exceptional conditions, Parliament may sit in any other part of Austria away from Vienna...
Similarly the two U. S. citizens who last week accepted invitations to sit on the bank charter committee pack their own potency. They must have plenty. They are Jackson Eli Reynolds, president of First National Bank of New York, and Melvin Alvah Traylor, president of First National Bank of Chicago...
...followed him from the Philippines, is in the White House stable. He, "Master William Hamilton Bones," in the care of Private John Hale, U. S. A., is reported to chew the blackest plug tobacco, which accounts for the brownness of his whiskers, to eat the horse's hay, to sit up on his haunches and "speak" in goatish gutturals...
Until Robert Marion La Follette Jr. took his seat in the Senate at the age of 30 (in 1925), the youngest Senator ever to sit legally was Luke Lea of Tennessee, aged 31, in 1911. Henry Clay of Kentucky sat in 1806, when he was 29, but in doing so he took a liberty with the Constitution. Had Luke Lea been renominated in 1916 and again in 1922 and still again in 1928 he would today, aged 50, be seventh in Senate seniority. But there was War in 1917 and Luke Lea organized an artillery battalion, became a real Tennessee...
...Boone, onetime performer with Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn's Denishawn Dancers. The rest were dancing masters and mistresses from all over the country who form the American Society of Teachers of Dancing. For 51 years members of the Society have convened annually, usually in Manhattan, to sit in judgment on the dance, to review old dances, see and invent new ones...