Word: sit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aisle towards the woolsack whereon sat Viscount Hailsham, Lord Chancellor, speaker of the House of Lords. At each three steps they paused to bow. When at last they reached the woolsack, Earl Baldwin knelt, got up, moved to a reading desk where a clerk sonorously summoned him "to sit among the Lords of the realm." Earl Baldwin was clearly uncomfortable. He searched for non-existing pockets, scratched his brow, had to be reminded to sign the Lords' register, take the oath, kiss the Bible. In five minutes it was over. He was led to a seat on the front...
...Ohio's Mahoning Valley, site of several Republic and Youngstown plants, other maneuvers were afoot. Basic strategy of all three steel companies was to sit tight, wait for back-to-work movements to start among such of their workers as were not actively allied with the S. W. 0. C. strike. They counted on aroused public feeling to assure protection for men going back to work. The Youngstown plants were entirely shut down, in charge of company maintenance men. Republic plants were in partial operation. All were in a state of close siege by strikers. Around the Republic plant...
...which forbids him to succeed himself in January's presidential election. Chosen in Rio de Janeiro by an all-party conclave as the "official" (i. e., majority) candidate for the presidency last fortnight, President Vargas' onetime Minister of Communications José Americo de Almeida was scheduled to sit in front while his master Vargas climbs peaceably in back...
...Governor Earle, whose personal share of the country's un-redistributed capital is considerable, was to hear from the chains once more. Last week in what looked like an adaptation of the Sit-Down, the chains closed hundreds of their Pennsylvania stores with a bang, After turning the key on 80 stores in & around Philadelphia, an A. & P. official announced bluntly: "The stores we have closed couldn't have operated at a profit under the tax. Those where the volume of business is such that the business will show a profit after including the tax will be kept...
Back soon after the play to sit in my window and look down on the river bank, with the open cars whizzing down the drive, the reflections of the street lamps peering out of the black water, and the hatless girls ambling along stalking their nocturnal prey...