Word: sit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even more lurid than poor bewildered Wozzeck's. Lulu is a vampire who feeds on power and lust. She destroys three men in the first two acts. At the end when she is murdered and horribly mutilated, the orchestra emits one terrifying shriek. Then only did Bostonians sit up in their seats. For although Berg again "uses the twelve-tone scale, he weaves it into a crafty harmonic design, subjects it to his moods which are for the most part restrained...
...reporter to business manager of the Rochester Post-Express. He had much to do with the Times's prosperity and with its rigidly high standards of advertising. He was a stickler for efficiency, a pocket-sized dynamo of energy. As many as 18 hours a day he might sit at his desk, his dwarfed body perched on a high cushion, his feet touching a tall hassock beneath the desk. A half dozen visitors or subordinates usually sat in chairs around the walls, waiting their turn to talk with Mr. Wiley. He was quietly, courteously brisk. While listening intently...
...cannot chart politics. You cannot sit down and draw some crooked lines showing where the fluctuations of political sentiment are likely to lead. Then why watch politics exclusively? Instead let us stick to the one formula we all know- 'business as usual.' Never did this country need that slogan more than it does today. Box the compass of your own industry. Plan your future requirements. Cut your cloth according to your pattern, as the motor industry has done. . . . Don't dodge the duties of citizenship by blaming government interference for the lack of business initiative...
Director Eugene Luther Vidal of the Bureau of Air Commerce was not one to sit back and watch Pan American's big show go on without doing anything. Last year the onetime West Point footballer was charged by Congress with providing safety for U. S. airways not only within the Nation's borders but beyond them. Out he went to Oakland, Calif., surrounded himself with technical experts, chartered TWA's original Douglas transport-long used as an experimental "dog-ship"- prepared it for ocean flying experiments. Because of the additional weight, and because the Douglas...
...line corporation with a reputation for tight-lipped accounting is National Biscuit Co., world's largest ("Uneeda") bakers of cookies and crackers. In the 37 years of its history it has never missed a dividend; last year made $11,598,000. On its board sit such conservative stalwarts as President Jackson Eli Reynolds of Manhattan's First National Bank and onetime Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills. The last person you would expect to see at its annual meetings would be a stocky, blue-eyed, personable young labor leader with a fistful of proxies from striking...