Word: sit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...career of managing magicians, wrestlers, promoting rollerskating, staging Christmas pantomimes, producing drawing-room dramas and musical extravaganzas, Mr. Cochran had never before exhibited such diffidence in dealing with the Press. Pointing solemnly to a chair, he said in a hushed voice: "Boys, this is where she is going to sit. Now please don't ask her questions of an embarrassing nature...
...management has reduced the principality to the status of a cheap gambling joint! He has almost ruined us. Léon must go!" Actually cheapness has long been Monte Carlo's chief attraction for earnest German gamblers with complex systems, for withered English crones who sit day after day playing for fantastically low stakes in the musty roulette room contemptuously called "The Monkey House...
...TIME, Jan. 7). From Chicago where he was transacting private business on one of his infrequent trips east from Palo Alto, Director Hoover telegraphed his acceptance. When the board of New York Life meets again next month the newest member will take his place at a table around which sit such men as Hale Holden of Southern Pacific, Percy Selden Straus of R. H. Macy, Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University, James Rowland Angell of Yale, James Guthrie Harbord of Radio Corp., George Bruce Cortelyou of Consolidated...
...been as high as 104,000 persons, whose purchases have run as high as $40,000,000 per month and whose operations include coal mines, glass factories, steel mills and a fleet of 37 ships. Yet the Ford staff is small. All the key men in the company can sit down together at a lunch table in a maple-paneled corner room at the Engineering Laboratory where the elder...
Growled Boston's William Cardinal O'Connell: "People will sit for hours listening to radio talk that is nothing but sham, pure and simple sham. . . . Do not put too much faith in those who are humbugging the world...