Word: sit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...command. But as Billy seemed so restless, Vag moved on into the big arena, to see the real show. Just as the sound of music, cracking whips, pistol shots, and cannons came to his car, Billy plucked at his coat. "Gee, I don't feel so good. Let's sit down a while. I don't want to go in there yet." On the very threshold of the promised land, Vag found himself frustrated. Muttering grimly about "a pesky younger brother," he sat down on a bench. But Billy, instead of getting better, felt worse and worse; finally Vag thought...
...Chairman Marvin Jones of the House Agriculture Committee President Roosevelt wrote a letter to sit hard upon a bill which would have upped the sugar quotas of tariff-protected mainland sugar producers by reducing the slice of the U. S. sugar market still left to the Philippines, Good Neighbor Cuba, and other foreign countries. The President damned the busy sugar lobby as "professionally dissatisfied...
...Meade is arrogant and wise, rebelled at his first interview. "Aw shucks," said he. "There ain't any mystery about me or my riding. I don't use no special tricks. I don't whisper no sweet words in the horse's ear. I just sit up there and hang...
...last week a big, bullet-shaped touring car nosed out of the Derham Custom Body Co.'s plant at Rosemont, Pa., and headed for Manhattan and glory. Army drab -colored, dark -green -leather -upholstered, fitted with a special top that folds down flat so that guests' may sit thereon in comfort to be admired, the sleek, custom-built Chrysler Imperial was destined to be the personal car of the president of the New York World's Fair, the greatest greeter of his time, Grover Aloysius Whalen...
...mother: she is proud of her pointed nose, "mentions the word 'FAT' almost 8 times per day." What she likes best""'is to let father sit in a chair and not reading anything . . . and hear her talking without any moving or uttering a sound...