Word: sit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Interested Judge. When G. M. got Circuit Judge Edward D. Black of Flint to issue an injunction last fortnight ordering Flint sit-downers to evacuate the two local Fisher Body plants, they hooted down the sheriff who tried to read it to them. Last week General Martin scored by asserting that Judge Black owned 3,665 shares of G. M. stock worth $219,900, petitioning the Michigan Legislature to impeach him for violation of a State law forbidding a judge to sit in any case "in which he is a party or in which he is interested." Judge Black admitted...
...orange blossoms sent by loyal Dutchmen who grow oranges in Italy. The twelve bridesmaids were in six pairs, each pair dressed in a differing pastel color to produce a soft "rainbow effect" desired by the Crown Princess. She tripped over a cushion just as she was about to sit down in one of the two "bridal chairs" - there is no altar in a Dutch church - but Prince Bernhard kept his bride from falling, and later, when a diamond bracelet fell off her Royal Highness' arm, he smoothly restored it. The clasp of her diamond necklace held...
...weeks that the Pope's ailments were at all serious, Vatican functionaries set up a censorship of telephone calls, the word always perforce being: "The Pope is well." When the Pope learned at Christmas time what was being printed about him, he ex- claimed: "I must get up, sit on the sedia gestatoria and bless the pilgrims." Last week when few doctors could find any reason for long-term optimism, word went out that the Pope plans to address by radio the 33rd International Eucharistic Congress in Manila...
...published next week are liberty-loving; Mr. Ernst's ideas on another constitution, a brisk anecdotal history of the U. S. Constitution and its makers which barely leaves the Supreme Court justices a bench to sit on (The Ultimate Power-Doubleday, Doran...
...begin to cast suspicious glances towards heaven. I shall hide myself quickly under the table and sit there tamely and quietly, without raising my voice." Chekhov took his success and its inevitable criticism calmly. The one shaft that got under his skin was that, almost alone in a socially-minded day, he took no interest in social problems. Chekhov certainly did not believe in Art for Propaganda's sake: he thought that "a writer should be just as objective as a chemist." But he surprised his critics by suddenly taking himself off to the Island of Sakhalin, Russian penal...