Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...photography. Its three ghosts all died for love of the same woman. Forgathered in a French mansion to save her daughter from marrying the wrong man, they find that humans walking back & forth through them give them the tickles. Out in the garden, where there is less traffic, they sit down for a cigaret. Two ghosts light up, offer the same match to the other one. "Non, non!" protests the superstitious third, "Pas trois...
...accuse each other of being false to their names.) The Progressives are led by Martin and his hand-picked assistant president, Richard Frankensteen. The Unity group is a combination of opposition forces led by Vice Presidents Ed Hall and Wyndham Mortimer and by the daring young tacticians of the sit-down strikes, Robert Travis, George Edwards, John Anderson and the fabulous Reuther Brothers, Walter, Roy and Victor...
...French masses are not easily aroused but soon some 18,000 workers in five factories of Citroën Motors ("The Ford Of France") went on a sit-down strike and, without stating specific grievances, hoisted red flags. While they continued to sit, quarter-hour sympathy sit-downs were staged at the Farman, Caudron and other vital French warplane factories. All this was extremely peaceable, without riots or even the summoning of police, but everyone remembered that in 1936 over 1,000,000 workers walked out as a means of: 1) pressing the first Popular Front Cabinet of Premier...
...Five years ago Cinemauthor Parker wrote Cinemactress Miriam Hopkins, then his wife, asking that there be "no sadness, no mourning and no ceremony" after his death. Now the wife of Director Anatole Litvak, Cinemactress Hopkins last week gathered with other Parker friends in a Hollywood funeral parlor, "just to sit around," she said, "and talk about what a swell...
...Divide when Transamerica sold Manhattan's old Bank of America to National City in 1931. By that deal Transamerica became National City's biggest stockholder, and in 1933 A. P. and his friend John Francis Neylan went on the National City board of directors, where they still sit. Thus the idea that A. P. was marching eastward again, a periodic rumor, was slightly absurd, because A. P. still had a heavy, if minority, stake in the East. His new stake in Chicago banking is even more of a minority stake because 15,000 of Continental represents only...