Word: sit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time in the fight was the Court itself a major issue. Except to its enemies, the World Court (U. S. nickname for the Permanent Court of International Justice) is simply an international body of 15 old judges (including onetime U. S. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg) who sit infrequently at The Hague and draw $18,000 a year each. In the twelve and a half years of its existence the Court has decided 23 cases and rendered 25 "advisory opinions." Neither its friends nor enemies claim that it has yet changed the course of world history...
...thing, however, the Court could notice without loss of dignity and detachment: Thousands of citizens were trying to wangle the right to sit in the 90 seats of the small Supreme Courtroom on Feb. 4. Therefore on Feb. 2, in an unprecedented manner, the clerk of the Court handed the Press a brief announcement...
...Russias, poorly but warmly clad Soviet legislators jounced into Moscow last week beaming and expectant. To them Joseph Stalin is a real Santa Claus. Once every few years-they get free rides to Moscow and lavish entertainment at the State's expense. Two thousand strong, they sit in the onetime Throne Room of Tsar Nicholas II and are known as the All-Union Congress of Soviets. The Congress is content that its members do not rule Russia but merely ratify the acts of the Stalin dictature. Hand-picked by Communist agents in the provinces for this duty, the Congressmen...
...family is out, sit up until they come home...
There is probably not a person in New York who could sit through the play without at least one good belly-laugh and half a dozen chuckles, and most of the audience comes pretty close to rolling in the aisles. If you have an evening in New York and want to get your money's worth of entertainment, you can be sure of it at the 48th Street Theatre