Word: sit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...went on to describe the annual International Exhibition which will open in Pittsburgh in October. In addition to paintings from Spain, England, France, Italy, Sweden, there will be shown, for the first time since the War, a group of German and Austrian pictures. On the Jury of Awards will sit Anglada y Camarasa, Spanish painter; Ernest Laurent, French impressionist; Algernon Talmage, English landscape...
...American Revolution concerning the adventures of John Fraser : how his father was a Tory, his lady a revolutionist ; how he, torn between two personal voices and not particularly concerned with the wider issues of his country's dilemma, went to England, France, Scotland, looking for a fence to sit on ; how he heard men declaim in taverns and ordinaries, breaking their clay pipes with the passion of their rhetoric ; and how, by a somewhat fatuous coincidence, he came at last to march with Greene's army through North Carolina. Mr. Boyd writes the language laboriously and without zest...
Thus New England sends a woman to Congress for the first time. She is the seventh woman to sit in the House of Representatives. Others: Miss Jeannette Rankin (Montana) ; Miss Alice Robertson (Oklahoma) ; Mrs. Winifred Mason Huck (Illinois) ; Mrs. Mae E. Nolan (California) ; Mrs. Julius Kahn-(California) ; Mrs. Mary T. Norton* (New Jersey). She follows the new "widow" precedent in politics (Mrs. Nolan and Mrs. Kahn and Governess Ross of Wyoming succeeded their husbands-Mrs. Huck, her father...
...Brazilian coffee monopoly, the rubber syndicate will probably defeat itself by encouraging tremendous new production, especially in the Dutch East Indies and the Para and Upper Amazon portions of Brazil. But it takes several years to bring rubber trees to bearing age, and meanwhile the British rubber growers will "sit pretty...
...long after her appearance in Spain, she had, perforce, to sit in the royal box in the great bullfighting arena at Madrid. Pale and sick at heart, she watched the bull charge into the ring, watched the matadors and the toreadors approach. That much the Spanish people could force her to do, but they could not make her keep her eyes open; and throughout the whole nauseating, raucous performance, her eyes avoided the cruel slaughter...