Word: sit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Following Mr. Alley's address, an important piece of business will be transacted by the assembled delegates when each college or university present will nominate a representative to sit on the Findings Committee. The work of this committee will be to discuss proposals looking to the making permanent of some sort of student organization on international affairs, and it will also draw up a resolution covering the general sentiment shown in the discussion...
...cabinet ministers of many thriving republics, resplendent with gold braid and Risorgimento mustachios, do not sit down to deliberate with one quarter of the dignity, with one tenth of the prestige, that attends the councils of a group of gentlemen who met last week to perform a perfunctory but important piece of business. They were the directors of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey. The business was the selection of a new Chairman to fill the place of the late A. C. Bedford. Who that Chairman was to be had already of course been decided upon, but not until...
...realistic scene in the whole play, one of the characters turns to the landlady and asks her to make a second at chess. "But I do not play chess", remonstrates the landlady, "I only play checkers!" "That makes no difference", retorts the other, "come let us play." Whereupon they sit down and play a game of chess. The significance of this is obvious. In real life, the "rival stage", a knowledge of chess is necessary before you can play the game. But in the world of illusions, in the life of the theatre you can play chess without knowing...
...amazing the number of pies in which he has his fingers. There are those who say he practically represents the brains of the Administration, although he and the other junior member, the Secretary of Labor, sit at the foot of the Cabinet table. There is no question of the multiplicity of his problems, not only of industry (standardization, etc.) and of trade (establishing connections abroad, etc.), which fall within his own Department, but in other Departments as well. Presidents Harding and Coolidge both have leaned upon him in solving some of their most onerous problems. He is called upon...
Vice President Charles G. Dawes sat with head bent forward. Few famed politicians can decently attend an operatic performance; if they laugh and talk, it is perceived that they care nothing for music; if they sit silent, it is supposed that they are asleep. The Vice President may have been defamed by people who did not know that, as a youth he was accounted a virtuoso on the violin; that he still solaces his bitter moods with fiddling; that he is a composer...