Word: sit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Particularly pleased was Panama's President Harmodio Arias. Two years ago he traveled to the U. S., enjoyed two nights at the White House, a State dinner, and most of all an opportunity to sit in on one of Franklin Roosevelt's press conferences. Struck with admiration he flew home and startled Panama by instituting press conferences of his own. Year ago he returned Franklin Roosevelt's hospitality, had an elevator installed in the Presidencia so that he and beauteous, curvesome Senora Arias could make the U. S. President comfortable when he came to dine. But until...
Good shot: King Mofolaba. summoned to palaver with Sanders, arriving in a hammock with a slave carrying a chair for him to sit on when he gets...
...Depression," explained Inventor Merkl. "Nothing to do. I swear I make a trap to catch anything. First I figure and figure. Then I improve and improve. All 100% humane traps. No one gets hurt. The animals, they like it. They sit there inside, nice and quiet, and look out. Only the coon, he woof at you when you come. They go in my traps. I guarantee...
Famed for his "definitions," always good for a titter in Old Bailey, was the late, great Acid Drop. His definition of a lunatic: "A lunatic sometimes thinks he is the Lord Chancellor; sometimes he thinks he is a fried egg and cannot sit down except on a piece of toast...
...Edward B. Smith & Co. in the early 1920's but before the end of that decade the Brothers Behn were using J. P. Morgan & Co. Under the Banking Act of 1933, the House of Morgan is no longer in the investment business, but its partners, two of whom sit on the I. T. & T. board, still take at least a friendly interest in their old clients' affairs. Furthermore, as commercial bankers J. P. Morgan & Co. hold a good deal of Mitchell paper including, at last reports, mortgages on the three Mitchell homes. Certainly no one would be more...