Word: sit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Adolphe A. Berle, City Chamberlain of New York and member of the original brain trust, has agreed to be the guest speaker at luncheon on Friday. Alan M. Fox, Director of Research of the U. S. Tariff Commission, will sit at the Round Table on Foreign Trade...
Wendell L. Wilkie, president of the Commonwealth and Southern Corporation of New York City, has agreed to sit at the Government and Industry Table. Finally, Howard A. Loeb, prominent Philadelphia banker, will sit with Lamont at the Banking Table. This brings the total number of guests...
...younger head-waitresses in the Houses was busy handing out guest checks when from behind came the query, "Where shall we sit?" She thought she recognized the voice of one of the House's more insufferable jokesters. "Right this way, darling," she called over her shoulder and led the way to a vacant table. She drew out a chair and made ready to hand the student his meal check, when she saw seating himself no student, but Aldrich Durant, (among other things overlord of the Dining Hall), much amused...
...speaker lifts the pince-nez from his nose: they snap to their stations on his pearl grey waistcoat. Folding shut the little brown volume, he gathers a few odd papers, picks a soft grey fedora from the top of the desk. Students sit glued to their chairs. Gaily, resolutely, unperturbed the lecturer marches down the aisle and out the door...
...Tobacco commissions from each state party to the compact shall sit together, estimate consumption for the type of tobacco in question, go home and allot quotas to each tobacco farm in each state, based on the quota system...