Word: sit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spanish War Veterans stirred in their chairs, whispered together. "Sit down," they muttered. "Shut him up!" But the speaker went right on and said his say, for he was a veteran in perfectly good standing. More, he was Captain William S. Ortman, chief of the Capitol police, a body whose opinions on the behavior of statesmen should be intimately informed but is seldom solicited. He had attended several Dies hearings and "didn't think it was fair to let people get up and talk without proper evidence, so I stopped going. A lot of those witnesses were mentally...
...Conference" was already off on the wrong foot. Arabs refused to sit in the same room with the Jews.* On the first day the Arabs appealed to Allah, the Jews to Jehovah, and the British, diplomatic as ever, to common sense. Zionist Spokesman Dr. Chaim Weizmann declared that under the Balfour Declaration and League of Nations mandate, the Jews have a material and moral right to a permanent national home in Palestine, particularly now when the refugee problem is so critical. Arab Spokesman Jamal al Husseini said the mandate was a flop, that Arabs had squatter's rights...
...home remedies" to ease his pain. He ate only soft, bland foods: boiled chicken, thin vegetable soups, small amounts of rice pudding, occasional sips of red wine or champagne. Last November he had another serious attack of cardiac asthma, often had to get out of bed at night and sit in an armchair to relieve his coughing spells...
...Wall Street one day last week J. P. Morgan humped himself from his desk at the far end of the big room in which all Morgan partners sit, walked through the lobby to a small reception room and greeted reporters with a "Good day, Gentlemen." At that point Mr. Morgan's usual embarrassment overtook him, he muttered something about his firm's being "short-handed," then passed around flimsy sheets bearing the curt announcement...
...Going Places" were not equally clever. This film, burdened from the start by the presence of Dick Powell, takes itself seriously every now and then, and the result is very dull. In between the serious moments there is, however, some wonderful comedy, as, for example, when the leading men sit down at a piano and compose "Oh What A Horse Was Charlie" to the tune of "Mother Machree." On the whole, the program is entertaining,--more than the marquee would indicate...