Word: sitter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stage when the final curtain is down. Says she: "I am having the time of my life. Each night I dedicate the performance to somebody-a friend, my dead husband. Then I think of the woman in the audience who is tired and who had to get a sitter to be able to come. Why shouldn't I give my best...
According to an old Arabian proverb, brought out of the Old World as a theme for "The Secret Heart," "there are three things you cannot hide--love, smoke, and a man riding on a camel." According to a waggish U.T. aisle-sitter, there is a fourth--the relation of this proverb to the rest of the picture. At any rate, MGM has beaten together another Freudian free-for-all combining misunderstood childhood and the Navy's views on darning socks in so mangled a melee that even the participating psychiatrist doesn't know all the answers...
...tutor for three years. "Since I was influenced strongly and simultaneously by Laski and by Irvin Babbitt, who with his theories of 'inner cheeks' you might call Conservative, a tug of war ensued in me. It ended with my becoming what some people have called a fence sitter...
Kilty also announced that he is looking about for a "sitter" for the baby of Donna Holabird, who will play the role of Saint Joan...
...vocation- dog sitting. When friends leave for country weekends, Musician Phil Davis and wife move in and take care of the dogs, meanwhile enjoying the change from their own cramped apartment. "Most of the dogs have their own little routines and you have to follow them just so," said Sitter Davis. "If you don't . . . you have a little mopping...