Word: sit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Council Sits. At the first session of this "1926 Council," Foreign Minister Doktor Gustav Stresemann appeared, pink and portly, as the first representative of Germany, to sit at the Council table. Reaching into his breast pocket he pulled out a long white cigar holder, clipped a fat Havana, and settled back behind a peaceful smoke wreath. As a matter of courtesy and alphabetical precedence the chairmanship of the Council was offered to the Representative of Germany (Allemagne). Beaming, Dr. Stresemann declined the honor on the ground that he does not speak French, the language in which the Council is ordinarily...
...show revolves. From Stanley Lupino, English comedian, it draws its light. This superb clown flashes one of the season's gems in his sensational disclosure of the shocking impotence of Calvin Coolidge, Alfred Smith and Lloyd George, none of whom can lay eggs, grow ostrich feathers, or sit like a house fly in the saccharine stickiness of a raspberry tart. The chorus of toe-dancers flit about in movements more airy than usual. Theatre-goers can hardly afford to miss Comedian Lupino. The rest is mediocre...
...autobiography, Anthony Trollope quotes: 'The young writer need tie no wet towel around his head, nor sit for thirty hours at his desk without moving,--as men have sat, or said that they have sat.' And Anthony Trollope wrote many pages, many hours every day, and his books are still read and loved, and he earned $350,000 by his pen. A goodly sum for a writer in a life time...
...nine weeks of his vacation, President Coolidge has not made a single public utterance. It was once thought that to carry on a successful "front porch" campaign, it was necessary to have Rotary Clubs, Elks, Boy Scouts, Better Voters' Leagues, come and sit on the lawn. Then the officeholder or office-seeker would make a speech to them which would be broadcast through the land. But this summer, Mr. Coolidge has hit upon a new method of influencing the public-and a clever one too. His scheme has two essentials...
...California, the McAdoos are fighting for the nomination of one John B. Elliott for Senator. If they are successful, then Democrats throughout the land might sit up and say: "Ah, William Gibbs still has political potency; he runs things in his own state." Mrs. McAdoo took an active part in the primary campaign when she wrote a letter to Mr. Elliott last week...