Word: sit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week George Grey Barnard, famed U. S. sculptor, reported that the perfect man from Maine had come to town. Sculptor Barnard besought him to sit for his new heroic "Democracy" to be erected on the Fort Washington peninsula, but received for answer...
...speculation regarding the use of humor and of humorous questions in debating. Competitive speaking between colleges happens at present to find itself in a state of metamorphosis of which some aspects are necessarily unlovely and extreme; and it can profit definitely by examining the frank criticism of those who sit in debating audiences or who serve as its official judges...
...Cartrack made her small but definite appearance, religion shining from her eyes. Up the street from her home she came with the Gleam in her eyes and betook herself to the Ninth Incorporated Methodist Church, where the Reverend Isaiah Poodle was holding service. There I was told she would sit for ten minutes by the watches of the crowd about the store when she would leave the perfervid Poodle as rapidly as she had come unto him. For the Reverend Poodle had but one subject on which to preach Sunday nights, and that was Pekinese Purgatory. And Cartrack being...
...shortly finished conducting a rehearsal of the Orchestra, and was still discussing certain points with a number of the members of the Symphony. When he had finally finished this work he invited the reporter into his room and welcomed him with the greatest kindness. Motioning him to sit down, the famous Russian conductor asked his interviewer to feel free to question...
...called the Dark Eye, behind the sun," where the waters rise and the winds are borne on the waters of the afterlife. Through hia priests he brings a new manhood and womanhood, to be entered by night at hushed circles where a drum is beaten and the men sit naked to the waist chanting inward liturgies...