Word: sit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then it was amused, or if it could not be amused, pretended to be. The Senate felt it had little to worry about. Once in four years the Vice President can make a little speech, and then he is done. For four years he then has to sit in the seat of the silent, attending to speeches ponderous or otherwise, of deliberation or humor...
...will not be adopted, although Mr. Dawes seems to have some hope that they may be brought to a vote-just for the sake of getting Senators on record. But during the session he can do little directly. He must hear what, ever the Senators choose to say- ! and sit in the seat of the silent...
...Manhattan, 3,000 persons paid $1 each for the privilege of inspecting the onetime residence of William Kissam Vanderbilt, soon to be demolished. A cinema, an orchestra, stars from the Metropolitan Opera Company, provided diversion for those who wished to sit in the great oak-beamed hall, once Mr. Vanderbilt's dining-room; but most of the payees preferred to spend their time walking through the five floors of echoing empty rooms, coveting the crystal drops on the great girandoles, or peering at Mrs. Vanderbilt's carved marble bathtub. James Ward, ancient watchman of the premises, pointed...
...copy desk sit the men who edit the local stories in a daily newspaper...
...telegraph desk sit the men who edit the stories that come by wire...