Word: sit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...person present, not including the defendants and attorneys, was University of Wisconsin's illustrious Artist-in-Residence John Steuart Curry, his pencil out and ready to catch "Wild Bill" Donovan in action. Colonel Donovan cried: "Gentlemen, we may now see another depression, a new call for men to sit down with their President...
...annual meeting of the National Association of Manufacturers last month, its chairman, Colby M. Chester asked rhetorical questions: "Will the Government sit down with Business and Labor? Will it invite this co-operation?" This modest suggestion made a great impression on George Harrison, head of A. F. of L.'s Brotherhood of Railway Clerks. Since Labor was sharing the brunt of Recession in layoffs and shortened hours, Laborman Harrison took it upon himself to bring Government and Business face to face. Soon he was scurrying back & forth between the President's son James and the better Manhattan clubs...
...book is not, however, the much abused type of literary reminiscences which flood the bookstores with new versions every week. His pattern characterization which persist throughout increase its merit. He does not sit in an armchair with his won bibliography in front of him, going over each title as it appears, and racking his brains for an anecdote or some hitherto undisclosed fact to tell of it. Instead he throws a pack over his shoulder and starts out on a hike from London to Devon-shire, treading again over the same highways he had traveled along in his Cambridge days...
Cummon now, howja know he's a Harvard? she insisted. Well, you really wanna know, huh? he said. I tell ya then. See this car? Every seat in it is taken, ain't it? Everybody's sittin that's got a place to sit. But there's still one vacant seat left--the one next to HIM. That means he's a Harvard for sure...
This question may best be answered by pointing out that there are ten Judicial Circuits in the United States, each presided over by a Justice of the Supreme Court (one doing double duty). The Justices have the right to sit as members of lower federal courts and, indeed, until the abolition of the federal circuit courts, it was their duty. It is the pressure of business, the limitation of time, and not a canon of judicial etiquette which makes it unusual that a Supreme Court Justice sits on a case with members of a lower federal court...