Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Four prepared to sit down once more in the flag-bedecked Luxembourg Palace, a little good news filtered through the clouds...
...Congress of Vienna convenes in 1815 (though it looks suspiciously like the Foreign Ministers Conference in Paris, 1946). Wellington, Talleyrand and Alexander, Czar of all the Russias, are about to sit down to a game of cards with Austria's Metternich. Cries the Czar: "Austria play cards on an equal basis with the big powers? Impossible...
...Watters' Yerba Buena Jazz Band average 30 years in age, but they serve such standbys as Ostrich Walk and High Society, along with new ones of their own New Orleans style. The college students, sailors, socialites and nostalgic oldtimers who pack the joint don't come to sit and listen. Their dancing rocks the floor like an old-fashioned firemen's ball...
...never get together if you sit that far apart," he said. "You've got to sit closer and hold hands." Both preserved a stony silence. "You're young and good looking," Giese went on, "and I think you're still in love. Now I been married 26 years and I've got three kids. Sure my wife and I have spats. But one of us always remembers my wife's favorite answer: 'the smartest one always gives up first...
...lets the public pick his artists. He spends hours in the box office, listening to what price seats customers ask for, to judge what traffic an artist will bear. During intermissions he slips quietly through the crowd, eavesdropping on customer comment. Says he: "When I discover an artist I sit in the audience just like the public. ... If you sit 25 minutes without squirming and your eyes and ears are still in his direction, then I personally believe that artist will be a success." In a Paris concert hall he once heard a little-known American Negro contralto, offered...