Word: sit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...etiquette for a Supreme Court Justice, even if he is only a prospective one, to sit on the same Bench with lesser Judges...
...White has since ably maintained his reputation for originality. When a reporter once asked him about his favorite hobby, the 250-lb. Governor shyly replied: "A lot of fellows think I'm kidding when I say it ... but what I would rather do than anything else is to sit on the fence and listen to a little pig three months old crack corn. That...
...opening message to Congress. So last week Der Angriff, organ of the regimented German Labor Front, solemnly reported in a dispatch from the U. S.: "Lack of officially organized aid for the needy has resulted in frightful misery. In Cleveland 65,000 are in dire need. Numerous hungry persons sit crying, often with small children, in the municipal welfare bureaus begging for food...
...past few months, Justice Van Devanter has been vacationing, subject to call-under the terms of the retirement act-by Chief Justice Hughes for emergency duty. Last week it was announced that by mutual agreement he would return to sit during the January term on the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Reason was the same as that for which Associate Justice Charles Evans Hughes returned to the same court just before he resigned to run for President in 1916: a crowded docket. Chief case which senior Judge John C. Knox may assign...
...forget that, he continued, and sit down. You will answer these questions as I ask them: name and address? occupation? name of each parent? Then he leaned forward. What are their ages? Realizing that this was an important question, the Vagabond only lied by seven years for the sake of his mother. Where were you born? The Vagabond responded: Hopeville. Oh, Hopeville, he said. Yes, the Vagabond said, Hopeville. Well, well, he commented...