Word: sit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Missouri; the other Democrat on the committee is Senator King of Utah, one of the least silent men in the upper house. Young Senator LaFollette, Progressive Republican from Wisconsin, not inclined to be forward, has yet shown in the Tariff Commission investigation that he is not the type to sit back dumbly during cross-examining. The Republican side of the committee has Senator Goff of West Virginia, a so-called hard-boiled Republican of the genus bred in West Virgina, and Senator McNary of Oregon, known in the Senate as an able cloakroom politician...
...better than to forget both and remember that all the issues were social and economic protests indebted to politics neither for existence or importance. There could be hardly more pictorial presentation of the truism that when society proposes, the politician has no choice but to dispose. He may sit on the lid as cartoonists so often picture him, or he may let the cat prematurely out of the bag in the metaphor of conservatives; but government will ultimately reckon with all outstanding social evils...
...factory to an all-night bridge game- and the current he generates is seldom grounded. Small wonder that lately he has been able to let Lord & Thomas carry on largely under its own momentum, with a buzz from him; small wonder that, still well short of 50, he can sit back as chairman of the board in the big new merger and let Thomas F. Logan be the active president...
...have been cut because there is no longer any room for them. And having no adequate symposium or swimming pool in which to exercise themselves they follow the other paths open to them. Now which will do these men the most good a chapel in which they can sit in marbled coolness thinking of the good times they are missing or a gymnasium in which they can find good wholesome exercise strengthening their bodies and fitting themselves for the battle of life? And the boys in France, sleeping their last--would they be more pleased to have an aspiring finger...
...father and George and Jeff, brothers, are delighted, even if Walt does hammer all around his nailheads and sit on a rafter reading Homer and Aeschylus at lunch hour. He has "quit loafing." But the morning comes when he is late for breakfast and they find him sitting up in bed, the floor strewn with loose papers, writing again. They guess he is hopeless...