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Word: sit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Completely wrapped up in his music, he spends all his spare time arranging. When he was asked if the found it difficult to arrange, he said that "music just comes naturally to me when I sit down and play. I guess...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Claude Hopkins Would Prefer to Play Classical Music; Doesn't Like Swing | 11/23/1937 | See Source »

Here let us sit and watch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Death of MacDonald | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

...Association of Accredited Publicity Directors named as No. 1 U. S. publicity man glum, poker-faced Charles ("Charley") Michelson, chief publicist for the No. 1 U. S. citizen. Said Franklin Roosevelt's pressagent at the Association's dinner in his honor: "There is an impression . . . that I sit at the President's right hand,* sharing his innermost thoughts, and that no Congressman or Senator can make a speech or take a drink without consulting me. Unfortunately, that picture is not exactly accurate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 22, 1937 | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

...picture is Hollywood's idea of a painless way to present good music to the great American public, but it just doesn't pan out that way. Only those who are sufficiently fond of classical music to sit through some pretty poor sequences are advised to go. We submit the same advice to lovers of more popular music, for Bing Crosby's "Double or Nothing" is far from the ideal musical comedy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

...invest it. Crosby sings songs that we vaguely remember hearing a few months ago, and wins the coveted fortune by the most preposterous "deus ex machina" we have seen in some time. The picture is hardly to be recommended on its own merits, but those who sit through it will be interested by Fox Movietone's All-American selections. We can hardly believe that Clint Frank is such a good player...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

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