Word: sit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ambition was to meet President Franklin Roosevelt. Hobbling into the White House on an old cane, he hobbled out an hour later with two canes, one of them silver-headed, inscribed "Franklin D. Roosevelt." Said William Andrew to the press: "They let me in and the President had me sit down. I told him about when President Johnson died. I slept with him six days and six nights in Tennessee after he had a stroke. I was only 18 or 19 when he died, but in them days, you know, boys were just like men. . . . President Roosevelt is my kind...
First official act of big, bronze-skinned Mr. McNutt will be to sit in on discussions of U. S.-Philippine trade relations with President Roosevelt and little, brown-skinned Commonwealth President Manuel Quezon, who last week sped across the land from Los Angeles to keep his White House engagement. Informed of Mr. McNutt's appointment in Chicago, President Quezon tactfully observed that if President Roosevelt had chosen him he must be the best man for the job. But in Manila, the U. S.-owned-&-edited Bulletin declared: "If politics had not been considered, if special fitness had been...
...with great gusto into the teaching based on folkways and tradition, he preaches a schooling tied to the life of today, teaching the latest social problems in the everchanging, indeterminate manner of modern culture itself. The great object of his scorn is the smugness with which schools tend to sit back and survey their methods of instruction...
...being bored, has sat down at the table of the world, shuffled the cards, and is now diverting himself with a variety of solitaire called Idiot's Delight. That is the cosmic view as modernized by Robert E. Sherwood, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne are made to sit in a resort hotel in the mountains of Italy that were Austria's not so long ago and welcome in the Second World War. "Onward Christian Soldiers" comes forth from them and the piano to mingle with the crash of bombs and the tinkle of glass in the sporadically lit-up darkness...
...main door. From thousands of loyal Italians thronging the streets of Naples went up a mighty roar. To the Princess of Piedmont, Crown Princess Marie-José, had just been born a nine-pound boy "with dark hair, dark eyes and a florid aspect," who may one day sit on the throne of Italy as King Vittorio Emanuele...