Word: sit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When the Senate voted to adhere to the World Court, which is the League of Nation's Court, it became apparent that the United States would have to sit with the League of Nations...
...asked to sit down outside of the League and confer with the gentlemen inside of the League with reference to whether we will accept the jurisdiction of the Court created, set, managed and controlled by the gentlemen inside of the League...
John Jeffery Farnol used to sit scrouged up in his nightshirt outside the parlor door while his father read stories to his mother. This was in Kent in the '80s. At school he used to tell stories to his mates that would last weeks, months, terms. There was no money to send him to college and his father tried to cure the boy's fever for yarning. But even in a Birmingham brassworks he jotted notes and spun tales at lunch hour. It lost him his job, but the fights he fought made red blood for his heroes and villains...
Charles Naegele and Mr. Koussevitzki will conclude the day in Sanders at 8 o'clock. For Beethoven is on the program in F major, and Grieg, and Pierne and De Falla. It is a program worthy of them, and between the numbers. I shall sit and wonder how they light the as jets on the chandeller...
...paid, that is, they are paid only once a week. My expenses for attending this trial have been higher than $6 a day. I don't care about that. But what I object to, and think I have a right to object to, is to have to sit in a courtroom day after day having my time taken up by idiotic objections from a lot of attorneys on points that don't amount to that! (snapping his fingers...