Word: sit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...national significance into the most insignificant of local elections. Because New York is the home State of Franklin D. Roosevelt and his political generalissimo. James A. Farley, its election of Assemblymen last week provided such partisans with a bare bone for gnawing. The President's part was to sit at Hyde Park and serve in silence as a rabbit's foot to bring luck to Democratic candidates. The part of the Postmaster General was to serve, in anything but silence, as the donkey's head. As chairman of both State and National Democratic Committees, he was confident...
...Monstrous! Unendurable!" rose the Corsican cry of Maitre Vincent de Moro-Giafferi, defender of the late great Swindler Alexandre Stavisky's widow Arlette (TIME, Mar. 12, 1934 et seq.). "We are granted not even a fit place to sit down. Scandalous! Outrageous...
...loves the old myths almost as much as he loves the majesty and dignity of the Greek temples and sculpture. To have the two in one as is the case in The Temple of Zeus at Olympia makes his heart bubble and urges him to go right now and sit at the door of Fogg awaiting Professor Chase...
...morning? May the Vagabond bring his flute; and play it whene'er he wishes? Will the gates be open to him at all hours? May the Vagabond bring the old woman to keep his fire; to make his tea? Must the old fellow don his cloak and sit at High Table? What will become of his Nut-cracker Man? What birds live in the Tower? Can the Charles, even as now, be seen? Do the Moon and the Stars peep in now and then? May the Vagabond have Alice and Bill the Lizard and the Walrus and the Hatter...
...Baker Memorial Hospital, doctors told Foster's family that his condition was considerably improved yesterday and that he would be able to sit up in a few days. Col. Charles R. Apted and Aldrich Durant '02, comptroller of the University, visited Foster yesterday...