Word: sit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Godfrey" is the apogee of madness, and it succeeds for one very good reason; Carole Lombard. As you sit there helplessly in your seat, dissolved in hilarity, you are likely to begin attributing your shameful condition to William Powell or to the drunk who wrote the lines. But it's no good passing the buck. The latter two factors contribute considerable shares, to be sure, but Carole's the crux of the excruciation. You may have seen her often before (she's been in pictures more years than she likes to count), and never liked...
...electors will get togethers in some hall and cast their votes just as if it didn't matter which way they went. How can they expect Landon and Knox and Roosevelt and Garner down there on the field to give everything they've got when the Electoral College boys sit back on the bleachers and say isn't it a shame we haven't had a good team since Lincoln and Hamlin...
...Will H. Hays, Presbyterian Elder, which may make U. S. Protestants feel better about the part their churches play in purifying the nation's pictures. The most potent executive of the Y. M. C. A., General Secretary Francis Stuart Harmon, 41, turned in his resignation, made ready to sit on the board of the Will Hays organization, the Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America...
...tongue for medical inspection, it is also necessary to instruct him to retract it when the examination is over. His entourage can converse without letting him understand what they say by spelling crucial words. When they want him to be amused, they invite him to "sit down and read the pictures." Broke and stranded, Joe's manager signs him to wrestle Sadie. Joe. who likes women close to his own weight, falls in love with her, enjoys her favors, refuses to go through with the match...
Favorite advertising of U. S. filling-station owners is a zoo. Favorite animal in George Langley's filling-station zoo near Ellsworth, Me. was a big black bear which he had raised from cubhood eleven years ago, taught to roll over and sit up for peanuts. One morning last week when Langley went into the pen to give the bear breakfast it pounced on him, chased him 100 yd., knocked him down, mauled him to death. When Langley's hired man ran up with a shovel, the bear killed...