Word: sit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...straps, the endless days are nights for many snow-blind Eskimos, days of black sunlight; that the Eskimo appetite is prodigious, measurable only by the amount of food available; that thieving is unknown among them; that at their indoor social gatherings it is customary for one and all to sit stripped to the buff; that if land is ever discovered beyond Barrow, and utilized for an aero base, Manhattan may be within two days and a half of Tokyo. Besides such statistics, human interest, personalities, abound. The one maddening thing is, that for a book written by a camera...
...Freshman Glee Club. The numbers which the former are so give have not yet been decided on, but the Glee Club has already completed its program which is made up of several English, Irish, Russian, and Dutch folk songs and three songs of a sacred nature. The audience will sit at tables in groups of five, and the hall will be decorated with a large 1929 insignia at the back of the hall which will be lighted up when the Glee Club comes on the stage...
...motion came up. Alarmed, Publisher Hearst commanded his chief scribe, Arthur Brisbane, to circularize all the A. P. members and ask them if they were going to permit their votes to be thus "forced" by the directors; if, having "scotched" this reptilian idea in 1924, they were going to sit by and permit "the right of protest" to be overridden in 1926; if they were going to permit Publisher Gannett to be "given a franchise for nothing that many other members have spent fortunes to obtain?" Scribe Brisbane, furthermore, denied that there had been any complaints against Publisher Hearst...
...cheek-pouches in which she could carry food. Her fingers would bend until they lay flat on the back of her hand. She had two marmosets which she fondled like children, and indeed they bore a noticeable resemblance to her; they would sit in her lap, gazing with sad eyes into her underslung face. She spent her spare time crocheting, but she read widely and spoke four* languages. Cultivated people were astonished when they talked with...
...will not sit at the same table with such a vagabond ne er-do-well as Raditch!" In what country was this insult passed...