Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bert Lahr, who's been on the boards since you used to sit on your father's lap at the neighborhood Burlesque, romped into town this week with a routine that sent a front row of bald heads rolling into the aisle and put a fold in the whalebone corset of someone's spinster aunt. Not since Stinky and Shorty pervaded the atmosphere of the Old Howard has this Hub sniffed anything resembling Lahr's patter, and not since Margie Hart twisted her ankle on a faulty runway have Beacon Hill Burghers seen-even on the sly-a morsel like...
...expect a better world when the people of a democracy just sit back and try to repress their anxiety ? The classic joys and sorrows are puny today; the laments of the poets are ridiculous. Men cannot be concerned with the age-old struggle for personal improvement when whole nations of men are face to face with destruction...
...discuss Germany at any time. But the Soviet delegate refused. I for one do not intend to be forced by Mr. Molotov into a discussion of Germany. . . . The Soviet delegate kept us here last night until after midnight so he could get his reparations money. I propose that we sit until midnight tonight and see if we can do something for the peace of the world...
...hand around a Scotch & water and ruminated: "A drink is good any time, but it's better when you need it." How much he needed it, he indicated when a fellow drinker asked: "What goes on, anyway?" Replied Ernie: "I don't know. I just sit and listen. I know that if I fall back on the wisdom of the U.S. I will be all right. Jim will have a formula...
...added: "I will sit here no more arguing over whether the word should be 'and' or 'but' . . . haggling over commas and semicolons. If the conference is not held, the responsibility is clear...