Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little owl-eyed man with a sunburned bald spot walked in, and this was the signal for everyone to sit up. Everyone said, "Hi yuh, Jack?" Jack said he was all right except for the burned bald spot and everyone howled and said that was rich. Everyone remembered to call him "Jack." He used to be "Jake" but he had sent word around: "Call me Jack." Jack sat down grinning. Now everything...
...school in 1904 in Daytona Beach, Fla. "on $1.50 and faith." Her first pupils were five little girls and her son. They used charcoal for pencils, mashed elderberries to make ink. The curriculum included manual training; her pupils repaired junk-pile furniture so they would have something to sit...
...Sit Right Down. In the depression F.D.R. picked Mrs. Bethune to boss the Negro division of the National Youth Administration, the highest Government job a Negress has held. He relied on her also for extracurricular advice about Negro problems. ("He'd say: 'Come right in, Mrs. Bethune, sit right down. Now tell me about your people.' ") Occasionally she tried to boss the Boss-shaking her fingers under his nose to demand more funds for a pet project. When the President died, Mrs. Roosevelt sent one of his canes to Mary McLeod Bethune-a carved stick with Franklin...
...Somerset Maugham: "I sit down with a fountain pen and paper and the story pours out. However lousy a section is I let it go. I write on to the end. Then the subconscious mind has done what it can. . . . The rest is simply effort . . . polishing, rewriting the lousy parts . . . going over a chapter time and time again, until, though you know it isn't right, it is the best...
Summer theatre or not, "Burlesque" is worth anybody's inflation buck, and if you can't make it over to the air-conditioned New England Mutual Hall, buy yourself a Japanese fan, grab a towel, and sit tight till it subways over to Brattle Street...