Word: sit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Poet Eliot frequently had to sit most of the night while Artist Lewis worked feverishly on his portrait, which shows him looking dark and bitter in a grey-blue suit. When the picture was rejected he wrote to Lewis: "The portrait is one by which I am quite willing posterity should know me. . . . But I am glad to think that a portrait of myself is not to appear in the exhibition of the Royal Academy." Last week black-hatted, black-witted Wyndham Lewis (The Apes of God) turned up as a critic at the Academy's socialite preview...
Three 3½-year-old female elephants enter the ring, sit around a table, get three steins filled with colored water which resembles beer.* They sip their drinks, act increasingly tipsy, stagger around the ring, finally gulp down the water. While a trainer sings Show Me the Way To go Home, one by one the elephants sink to the ground, pretend to pass...
...tour, Representative Wilcox adheres to a curious habit to which he attributes his success, of sitting on the edge of his bed for half-an-hour each morning while he simultaneously plans his day in detail and massages his head to improve the circulation in his brain. Unlike Dave Sholtz who makes a point of stopping at a second-rate hotel wherever possible, Mr. Wilcox and his wife-who calls her 5 ft. 6 in. husband "the little giant" and whose social rivalry with Mrs. Pepper is rumored to be one reason for her husband's desire to sit...
...juvenilia from him. Then comes the literary executor. And the executor publishes more, and more, and more posthumous stuff, each batch a little feebler than the last. Such was the case with Katherine Mansfield; such is now the case with A. E. Housman. Admirers of Housman who have to sit helplessly by while his brother Laurence continues his well-meaning but damaging publications may well feel that the line from A Shropshire...
...Case. According to this bitterly angry financier, the whole shebang is a result of "the interests" ganging up on him. Robert Young asserts that when the Vans ran C. & 0., its fat banking account was always handled by J. P. Morgan & Co. or by Guaranty, on whose directorate sit two Morgan partners. Morgan's, claims Mr. Young, also handled all C. & O. financing, which was never offered to competitive bidding from other investment houses. This business would now fall to Morgan Stanley & Co., Morgan's underwriting offshoot since the New Deal divorced deposit banking and underwriting...