Word: sit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feast on good cheer, and good liquor to quaff, ' And forgetting our labors to sit down and laugh...
...just sit at meals and look at each other...
Correspondents in Berlin were still treated with unwonted courtesy by Nazi officials, still cabled their stories without Government interference. At the Taverne, Italian restaurant in Kurfürsten Strasse, they could sit around the newsmen's stammtisch (regular customers' table) sipping their brandy-and-lemon Nikolaevskys long after Berlin's 1 a.m. war curfew, when other restaurants closed. As a special favor the Government gave them laborers' rations: two pounds of meat a week, instead of the single pound allotted to white-collar workers...
Died. Marvel Mills Logan, 65, since 1931 Democratic Senator from Kentucky; of a heart attack; in Washington, D. C. Massive, sincere, a quiet liberal, Logan rose from a Kentucky small-town law practice to sit as Chief Justice of the State's Court of Appeals; was ready to fight again next session for his major work-a bill that would provide quick judicial review of administrative agencies' quasi-judicial rulings, the first actively-functioning check on New Deal bureaus...
...purpose, the complexity of various contemporary movements in sculpture, and a searching investigation of many other works of art which have been similarly received when first exhibited. Still the concentrated strength embodied in ADAM is penetrating enough to cause even the most aesthetically lethargic individual in the world to sit back and ponder...