Word: sit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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First, he exhibited thaumaturgy, legerdemain and prestidigitation. Then he gave a mock-seance?only the eight grandchildren would not sit; they insisted on standing up and crowding around the medium. He produced two white pieces of silk, folded them up and gave them to the children to hold. He called upon the spirits. He begged them to make manifest their existence by painting portraits of the late President...
...play, an uncommercial product which the Neighborhood Players made more uncommercial by a considerable supply of inept acting. The play itself is a rigorous psychological study of four Irish people. The wife loves the husband's friend; the husband has his own affinity. Yet they love each other and sit down to have the whole thing out. Most humans would have grabbed each other and tired of the affair before Joyce's characters stop talking about it. They deal with passion in paragraphs and prefaces. No doubt a lot that they say might be said, unheard, inside...
Toulouse-Lautrec, hiding his spindle legs under a square table, would sit with his glass between his fingers, blowing his smoke out into the vacancy of a dream. Born aristocrat, heir to great wealth, his spine had been injured when he was a boy. The inept surgery of the time had left him painfully deformed. Unable to endure the sympathy of his lackeys, he renounced privilege, went to live in Montmartre, painted what he saw there...
Arrangements to have the class of 1928 sit in a body at the Yale Freshman hockey game on Saturday afternoon have been made by the Freshman Dormitory Committees. A block of seats in the Harvard Cheering section of the Arena have been purchased and will be sold to members of the class through the committees...
...sit down on the floor...