Word: sit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that deep down in the placid pools of my nature the really worth while, the golden ingots of my impressions are stored, forevermore. And when I am old and gray, and the years have gently laid the veil of life aside, I shall sit before a flickering fire of dying embers, and I shall dream, and out of the shadowy past shall trail sweet memories, fragments of joys and sorrows and ambitions. Strong, white hands, angel-hands, from muted strings shall lure bushed melodies, and once again I shall stand on the steps of Widener and gaze across the beloved...
Undergraduates and graduates who are not going to the Princeton game tomorrow will be able, for the first time, to sit at their own radio sets in Cambridge and get the report of the contest from an eye-witness. There will also be a receiving set in the Living Room of the Union, with an electrical grid-graph, for the convenience of members...
...spent 20 millions in a few months, and that it let contracts to high-bidders instead of low-bidders. He demanded that the Commission cancel 36 contracts it had made. The Commission declined. The husband of the Governess is declared to be very close to the Commissioners, even to sit in at their meetings and make decisions. The fight is really between him and Mr. Moody. There is no Klan issue involved because Moody's anti-Klan attitude is as well known as that of the Fergusons...
...onetime President leads there a dignified but almost forgotten existence. There sits the aged Justice Holmes in his 85th year.* There sit the neat Mr. Sanford, the rangy Mr. McReynolds, the substantial Mr. Stone, Mr. Brandeis of the rumpled hair, and three other quiet gentlemen, Mr. Sutherland, Mr. Van Devanter, Mr. Butler. They seem like an institution of the ages, and in a way they are. They are appointed for life to a court as old as the Government. Yet more than half of them are newcomers, comparatively speaking, Taft, Sutherland, Butler, Sanford and Stone having been appointed since President...
...Democratic campaign funds (as he had previously done), holding that the members of the Court must never touch politics. When his own daughter came to plead before the Court there was no precedent, no regulation covering the contingency, but he voluntarily retired from the bench and did not sit on the case. Chief Justice Fuller, Confederate veteran, the only Roman Catholic Chief Justice, used to remark that he had jurisdiction over the entire U. S. except the Fuller home and family. Justice Brandeis doubtless feels in much the same...